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• [History fact 1] In 1988, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which gave $20,000 reparations to every Japanese-American (and their descendants) who got sent to internment camps in World War 2.

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• [History fact 2] The Greek explorer Pytheas was the first to encounter the northern Arctic icecaps, the Germanic tribes, the Midnight Sun and visited Great Britain in 325 B.C. He was also the first person to postulate that the tides were caused by the moon.

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• [History fact 3] In 2017, hundreds of fossilized Pterosaur eggs were discovered in the Gobi desert. The eggs belong to a previously known species of pterosaur that lived in China more than 100 million years ago. One such fossil suggests a wingspan of 36 feet making it one of the largest animals ever to fly.

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• [History fact 4] People in the past were legally able to purchase methamphetamines. Norodin was a brand name drug that was marketed towards ladies who wanted to lose weight. PanAm flights in the 1940s used to provide Benzedrine inhaler along with a large scotch and chicken for dinner. Meth moved from control by pharmacists to local drug kingpins after a slew of high profile criminal cases all over the world pointed to abuse of these narcotics as a contributing factor.

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• [History fact 5] During WWII, La-Z-Boy manufactured seats for tanks, torpedo boats, gun turrets, and armored cars.

  History, World War Two

• [History fact 6] Lions inhabited many areas of Europe until they were hunted to extinction around 100 B.C.

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• [History fact 7] Predatory dragonflies the size of modern seagulls were present on the earth about 300 million years ago. The leading theory suggests that their large size was due to high oxygen concentrations (over 30% unlike the 21% today) in the atmosphere.

  History, Insectssource

• [History fact 8] Old fire houses had towers constructed to hang the fire hoses up to dry. Canvas hoses had to be dried thoroughly to avoid deterioration.

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• [History fact 9] One of the more humorous things about the American Revolutionary era is that almost every single Founding Father were worse at managing personal finances than the average American is today (yes, it was that bad). By 1790, they had all amassed a crazy amount of debt, a lot of it was on extreme extravagances, like Washington ordering marble from Italy for his new fireplace or ordering green wallpaper (the most expensive color in the 18th century) from Northern Europe. Jefferson would reportedly spend $800 a day (in today’s dollars) on groceries while he was in the White House, a large portion of that was on wine. He also constantly renovated Monticello, bought books on credit and loaned money to farmers. Many of them were simply drowning in debt and had no clear plans for getting themselves out of it.

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• [History fact 10] Approximately 7000 years ago, humans used to drill holes in their heads to allow spirits to flow in and out of the body. This practice is called 'Trepanation.'

  History, Humanbodysource

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