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| | Facts | - In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1926, a waiter in Budapest committed suicide. He left his suicide note in the form of a crossword and the police had to get help from the public to solve it.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper found a glitch in her computer. After investigating, she discovered the system had a bug - a real one. Turns out a moth made its way into Hopper\'s computer. Though the word bug has meant fault or defect since as far back as the 1870\'s, Hopper's story is credited with making it the synonym of choice in the computer industry.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In the 1550's, the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, embarrassingly left to travel for seven years because he had accidently farted when he had bowed down to Queen Elizabeth I. When he returned the Queen said to him, "My Lord, I had forgot the fart."
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In the summer of 1858, the smell of the sewage in the Thames River in London was so bad that the Members of Parliament had to leave from the chamber of the House of Commons. This was a result of two million people dumping all their sewage into the river.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - St. Patrick explained the Holy Trinity to King Laoghaire, using the shamrock to illustrate the trinity.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The "Star Spangled Banner" did not become a national anthem until 1931. It was designated by an Act of Congress.
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