A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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