Facts in "History" Category
#2231 - History Fact     3  Henry Ford flatly stated that history is "bunk." |
| #2232 - History Fact 3 The first Eskimo Bible was printed in Copenhagen in 1744. |
| #2233 - History Fact 1 The last words spoken from the moon were from Eugene Cernan, Commander of the Apollo 17 Mission on 11 December 1972. "As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind." |
| #2234 - History Fact -1 The first dictionary of American English was published on April 14th, 1828, by - who else? - Noah Webster. |
| #2235 - History Fact 1 No automobile made after 1924 should be designated as antique. |
| #2236 - History Fact 0 John Hancock was the only one of fifty signers of the Declaration of Independence who actually signed it on July 4. |
| #2237 - History Fact 3 The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days. |
| #2238 - History Fact 8 Escape maps, compasses, and files were inserted into Monopoly game boards and smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during W.W.II; real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of Monopoly money. |
| #2239 - History Fact 6 Values on the Monopoly gameboard are the same today as they were in 1935. |
| #2240 - History Fact 0 Incan soldiers invented the process of freeze-drying food. The process was primitive but effective — potatoes would be left outside to freeze overnight, then thawed and stomped on to remove excess water. |
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