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facts - 0068March 31, 2008
Austria was the first country to use postcards.
facts - 0067March 31, 2008
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
facts - 0065March 31, 2008
A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
facts - 0064March 31, 2008
Until the 1960’s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
facts - 0063March 31, 2008
Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
facts - 0062March 31, 2008
India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.
facts - 0061March 31, 2008
The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under one roof.
facts - 0060March 31, 2008
It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal
facts - 0059March 31, 2008
Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
facts - 0058March 30, 2008
The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
facts - 0057March 30, 2008
Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
facts - 0056March 30, 2008
In Mexico, the Tooth Fairy is known as the ‘Tooth Mouse’.
