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1. Later in life, Benjamin Franklin kept a tamed bear as a pet. Everyone called the bear Gentle Ben.
2. George Eliot is the man who wrote the books Silas Marner and Middlemarch.
3. Identical twins have the same fingerprints.
4. No-one in the musical group 'Hootie and the Blowfish' is actually named Hootie or Blowfish.
5. The first elevator was erected in 1743 in the Palace of Versailles.
6. Saturn is the third largest planet after Jupiter and Neptune.
7. The shortest building in the world is the Lego Building in downtown Houston, Texas.
8. John Blair was the first person to sign the Constitution of the United States.
9. The poet, Shel Silverstein, also wrote the song 'A Boy Named Sue,' recorded by Johnny Cash. True or False?
10. Pocahontas was pictured on the back of the 1875 $20 bill (American National Bank Note). True or False?
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