Since 1918 the city of Boston has received a giant Christmas tree as a gift from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Boston lent considerable support to the city of Halifax during their 1917 explosion and subsequent fire disaster.
In the 1800 election for President, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes. Jefferson was elected President by the US House of Representatives with 10 state delegations voting for Jefferson, 4 voting for Burr and two making no choice.
A physicist made his cat the co-author of his scientific paper to avoid replacing “we” with “I” throughout his paper.
On the opening day of McDonald’s first restaurant in Kuwait in June, 1994, the drive-through line was 7 miles long.
In Old Norse, “Viking” denoted not a nationality, but occupation: a Viking was anyone who took part in an overseas expedition.
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