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What does it mean to “draw a line in the sand”? What was Operation Mincemeat? What does it mean to cross the Rubicon? Was Dracula a real person? What was the first capital of the United States? What are the bog bodies? What is Cinco de Mayo? Where did poker originate? What happened to the Aztecs? Why was Stonehenge built? Did the founding fathers wear wigs? Who invented baseball? Did Vikings really wear horned helmets? Was St. Patrick Irish? Were they always called World War I and World War II? Where is Genghis Khan buried? Did Shoeless Joe Jackson conspire to throw the 1919 World Series? Who was responsible for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre? Is spontaneous human combustion real? Did the Donner Party really resort to cannibalism? Who was the youngest first lady of the United States? What goes on at Area 51? What killed the dinosaurs? Did gladiators always fight to the death? Why is Christmas celebrated on December 25? How fast is the world’s population growing? Who built the first automobile? Did Christopher Columbus really discover America? Where did the dollar sign come from? Why do coins have ridges? Did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned? Is the curse of King Tut real? How does the Electoral College work? Did Abraham Lincoln predict his own death? Did Marie-Antoinette really say “Let them eat cake”? Who were the Knights Templar? Did Caligula really make his horse a consul? What happened to the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke? Did any of the Romanovs survive? Can you really see the Great Wall of China from space? Why is the Liberty Bell cracked? Did the Maya think the world would end in December 2012? Was King Arthur a real person? Who invented the toothbrush? Was Jack the Ripper a woman? Did anyone ever escape from Alcatraz? Did the Aztecs really practice human sacrifice? Who posed for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa?
What does it mean to “draw a line in the sand”? What was Operation Mincemeat? What does it mean to cross the Rubicon? Was Dracula a real person? What was the first capital of the United States? What are the bog bodies? What is Cinco de Mayo? Where did poker originate? What happened to the Aztecs? Why was Stonehenge built? Did the founding fathers wear wigs? Who invented baseball? Did Vikings really wear horned helmets? Was St. Patrick Irish? Were they always called World War I and World War II? Where is Genghis Khan buried? Did Shoeless Joe Jackson conspire to throw the 1919 World Series? Who was responsible for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre? Is spontaneous human combustion real? Did the Donner Party really resort to cannibalism? Who was the youngest first lady of the United States? What goes on at Area 51? What killed the dinosaurs? Did gladiators always fight to the death? Why is Christmas celebrated on December 25? How fast is the world’s population growing? Who built the first automobile? Did Christopher Columbus really discover America? Where did the dollar sign come from? Why do coins have ridges? Did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned? Is the curse of King Tut real? How does the Electoral College work? Did Abraham Lincoln predict his own death? Did Marie-Antoinette really say “Let them eat cake”? Who were the Knights Templar? Did Caligula really make his horse a consul? What happened to the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke? Did any of the Romanovs survive? Can you really see the Great Wall of China from space? Why is the Liberty Bell cracked? Did the Maya think the world would end in December 2012? Was King Arthur a real person? Who invented the toothbrush? Was Jack the Ripper a woman? Did anyone ever escape from Alcatraz? Did the Aztecs really practice human sacrifice? Who posed for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa?
