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1. It is said that if Ben Franklin would have had his way, the National Bird of America would not be a bald eagle, but rather a turkey.
2. On the first moon mission in 1969, Michael Collins (the command module pilot), had a short epileptic seizure during his time alone in the command module.
3. George Ferris, inventor of the Ferris Wheel, acquired all his engineering skills through independent reading, and in fact never even graduated high school.
4. We all know that Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr, but did you know that Hamilton's son was also killed in a previous duel?
5. Before it was completed, one of the faces on Mount Rushmore was completely blasted away and relocated.
6. Recent discoveries have shown evidence that people had been to the top of Mt. Everest possibly as early as the 1820s.
7. Despite her duties as interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition, the young Indian woman Sacagawea also had to carry and care for her new born infant during the journey.
8. The city of Washington D.C. was designed in a Virginia bar-room. Wherever a mug was placed on the map, a "circle" was designed into the crossing avenues.
9. Had Titanic not sunk on April 15, 1912, it was on a pace to break the speed record for Atlantic crossings.
10. Genius inventor and physicist Nicola Tesla, the man that developed AC current, claimed that he communicated with Martians.
11. Many have heard of the legend of Johnny Appleseed, but did you know that he was a real person by the name of John Chapman?
12. Before his death in 1890, Lakota chief Sitting Bull admitted that three soldiers of Custer's Last Stand had survived and been taken prisoner by the Lakota and killed weeks later.
13. Nixon secretary Rose Mary Woods admitted under oath to erasing the famous Watergate tape that included an eighteen and a half minute gap, but she said she only erased four or five minutes of it.
14. The enormous aircraft built by Howard Hughes and known as the "Spruce Goose" was actually made of birch.
15. "Lucky Lindy" is what they called him, and Charles Lindbergh came by his nickname honorably. At a well attended golf tournament shortly after his transatlantic flight in 1927, he hit a hole in one.
16. Gangster Al Capone didn't die in prison as is often believed, but rather at his home in Florida.
17. "I shall return." The famous quote by General Douglas MacArthur who was commander of American forces in the Philippines during World War Two. Did you know that General Douglas MacArthur was preceded as commander of American forces in the Philippines by his own father, General Arthur MacArthur?
18. Credited with inventing the assembly line, Henry Ford actually got the idea from a suggestion by the child of a neighbor.
19. The driver of the limousine carrying John F. Kennedy the day he was assassinated in 1963, Secret Service agent Bill Greer, later became an actor and even had a small part in the 1991 movie "JFK".
20. After his famed horse Traveller was killed at the battle of Chickamauga, Confederate general Robert E. Lee had the remains shipped to a burial site near the Confederate
Statehouse in Richmond, where the grave remains to this day.
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