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o In the 1620s, the Dutch has a colony on the lower tip of Manhattan. o The world’s oldest parliament, Iceland’s Althing, was founded in A.D. 930 by Vikings. o The U.S. invaded Canada twice, once during the Revolution and once during the War or 1812. o Both Hitler and Mussolini were vegetarians. o After the American Revolution, John Paul Jones served in the Russian Navy. o Benjamin Franklin preferred the turkey to the eagle as the American national bird. o For 20 years, Rudolf Hess was the only occupant of Berlin’s Spandau Prison. o Two small Alaskan islands were the only part of North America occupied by the Axis. o Only a tenth of one percent of all people on wagon trains were killed by Indians. o Harald Fairhair united Norway as part of a campaign to impress a girl. o The Tombstone gunfight was actually in front of a photography studio, not the O.K. Corral. o The first Canadian separatists were elected, not in Quebec but in Nova Scotia. o Anne Oakley lived long enough to teach soldiers marksmanship during World War I. o Among the cities founded by Vikings were Dublin, Ireland and York, Great Britain. o Geronimo’s real name was Goyathlay, meaning “One Who Yawns.” o Liberace’s last custom-made piano was covered with 350 pounds of rhinestones. o The U.S. uses more steel in making bottle caps than car bodies. o You can feed 24 people with one ostrich egg. o The most-watched film in history is The Wizard of Oz with over a billion people who have seen it. o The average American eats 22 lbs. of lettuce a year. o Americans owned 2.1 million computers in 1981 and in 1989 37.8 million of them. o Americans grow tomatoes at home more often than any other fruit or vegetable. o The bronze razor archaeologists took out of King Tut’s tomb was still sharp enough to use. o The Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought one hill over, on Breed’s Hill. o It takes 8 seconds to make a baseball bat in a bat factory. o You can make a glass of apple cider with here apples. o Sarah Bernhardt often slept in a coffin. o The Dead Sea is really a lake. o Both Elvis and his mom died when they were 42. o Porcupines have more than 30,000 quills. o Swedes drink more coffee than anyone else. o When he’s feeling amorous, the male sea otter grabs the female’s nose with his teeth. o Nazi Germany did invade the United Kingdom, but only as far as the Channel Islands. o General George Patton placed fifth in the pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics. o Only four Western Hemisphere nations sent troops to World War II. o Louisiana’s Cajuns are descended from French-speakers kicked out of Canada. o Pope John XXIII was an Italian sergeant during World War I. o John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator. o Only two people actually signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4. o U.K. Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home played world-class cricket. o Two British Prime Ministers are named in the Beatles’ song “Taxman.” o All three of Christopher Columbus’s ships were originally named for Barcelona prostitutes. o The throne of Ethiopia’s Menelik II was actually an electric chair imported from the U.S. o The Korean War was the first in which one jet plane shot down another. o In 1892, Annie Moore from Ireland became the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island.