- The "Star Spangled Banner" did not become a national anthem until 1931. It was designated by an Act of Congress.
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- The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City.
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- The first hot air balloon flight traveled for 5.5 miles over Paris and lasted for 23 minutes.
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- During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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- 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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- The first lighthouse built in the USA was in Boston, MA in 1716.
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- The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897.
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- 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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- In 1930, Ellen Church became the world's first airline stewardess.
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- Talc was used by cavemen 15,000 years ago as an ingredient added to make paint.
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- Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but were invented in India by the Hindus.
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- In 1796, Napoleon was only 26 years old when he took command of the French Army of Italy.
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- St. Patrick explained the Holy Trinity to King Laoghaire, using the shamrock to illustrate the trinity.
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- The first American celebration of St. Patricks Day was at Boston in 1737.
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- When Black Jack Ketchum was hung back in 1901 in Clayton New Mexico, the noose actually ended up taking his head off. The head had to be sewn back on so Black Jack could be buried properly.
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- Before 1883, the three-cent U.S. stamp was also used for advertising. The advertisment was located on the back of the stamp for various products.
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- The only South East Asian country that has never been colonized by a Western Power is Thailand.
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- In 1755, the first Canadian post office opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The fist Deputy Postmaster General was American inventor Benjamin Franklin who was later dismissed for sympathizing with the American revolutionary cause.
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- There have been close to 200 coups and counter-coups in the country of Bolivia.
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- The postage rate for a letter in 1693 was determined through how much light could pass through the letter. The postage rate would be more expensive if less light went through, and this process was called candling.
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- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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- There was an army general during the Liberia Civil War who used to lead his army into battle naked. His nickname was "General Butt Naked." Joshua Milton Blahyi (his real name) is now an evangelical preacher in Monrovia.
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- There are 47 czars buried within the Kremlin.
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