Nevada was originally inhabited by the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes. The first permanent non-native settlement, built in 1851, belonged to a different group—the Mormons.
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U.S. paper money is not paper at all: It’s 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen. In Ben Franklin’s day, people repaired torn bills with a needle and thread.
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Legends say China began in a great flood, some 4,000 years ago. Scientists found geological evidence that the flood was real.
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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, was the first American president to be born in a hospital.
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Donald Trump was the most Googled person of 2016 in 88 countries, including Mexico, Spain, South Africa and New Zealand.
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When Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates, he demanded they increase his ransom from 20 talents of silver to 50.
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In 1997, James Cameron saved Guillermo del Toro’s father from Mexican kidnappers by paying the US$1 million ransom.
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Les Harvey, guitarist for ’70s blues-rock band Stone the Crows, died onstage in front of 1,000 fans on May 3, 1972 when he was electrocuted while tuning up for a show.
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In the 60s, Harvard psychologists conducted an ethically questionable experiment on 22 undergraduates. One of these students later became known as the Unabomber, for delivering package bombs to scientists, academicians, and others, killing 3 people and injuring 23.
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