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    Ancient Romans made toothpaste with human urine

    Posted on Aug 1, 2022Jul 29, 2022 by Tyler Finck

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    After a massacre that took place there, the village of Sohagpur was renamed the “village of widows”

    Posted on Jul 29, 2022Jul 29, 2022 by Tyler Finck

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    the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States was Julia Chinn, an enslaved woman

    Posted on Mar 1, 2021Feb 28, 2021 by Tyler Finck

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    Pliofilm, a pre-war food wrap, was used to waterproof firearms during the Normandy landings

    Posted on Feb 22, 2021Feb 19, 2021 by Tyler Finck

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    A symbolic amount of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center after it was destroyed in the September 11 attacks was used in the construction of the USS New York

    Posted on Feb 19, 2021Feb 16, 2021 by Tyler Finck

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    Horse carcasses, and trash from three of New York City’s boroughs, were once processed at Barren Island, Brooklyn

    Posted on Feb 13, 2021Feb 13, 2021 by Tyler Finck

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    Slovakia was the only country that paid for the deportation of its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust

    Posted on Feb 11, 2021Feb 10, 2021 by Tyler Finck

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    When New York City’s Harlem Ship Canal Bridge had to be replaced, it was floated down the river to become the University Heights Bridge

    Posted on Feb 7, 2021Feb 4, 2021 by Tyler Finck

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    The infernal machine was a 25-barrel gun used in a failed assassination attempt on King Louis Philippe I in 1835

    Posted on Feb 2, 2021Feb 1, 2021 by Tyler Finck

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    New York City’s Grand Central Terminal was built at its current location because of a prohibition of steam trains in Lower Manhattan

    Posted on Feb 1, 2021Jan 26, 2021 by Tyler Finck

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