The orginal name for the Amazon River was Rio de Orellana coming from Francisco de Orellana, the first guy to sail its length and he did it from west to east mind you.
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Wyatt Earp died in 1929. Among his pallbearers was actor Tom Mix.
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Sap Green was originally called “pinke” but was sort of yellow. The original color is better known today as Dutch pink.
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The longest deforested piece of land is the 20-foot gash that runs through 1,349 miles of otherwise forested land along the 5,525 US-Canadian border on the 49th Parallel. It’s mowed and chainsawed every five or six years and costs each country about $1.4 million to do it.
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The Vatican violated the Geneva Convention during World War II. How? Forging documents to allow Jewish refugees to pass as converts to Catholicism. Forging documents was against the Geneva Convention.
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Winchester was the first capital of England, from 827 to 1066. Winchester Cathedral, completed in 1070, has the longest nave of any medieval cathedral in Europe.
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Chinese police use crossbows.
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Tombstone, Arizona had strict gun control laws in 1881. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral still happened.
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Benjamin Franklin seriously suggested that the Continental Army use bows and arrows during The Revolution.
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Police are trained to touch taillights of cars they stop. It leaves the officer’s fingerprint so the car can be positively identified if the driver should kill the officer and escape.