Sierra Leone in West Africa has a couple hundred stone statues that could have been created by ancient aliens! But probably not! Nobody knows!

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Hot air balloons date all the way back to the 1700s, and got their start in France!

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London Bridge has a long and sometimes wild history, dating all the way back to the Romans in 43 AD! And if you can't make it to London to see the bridge, just go to Arizona!

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In 2006, the Cola Wars came to a head, when Coca-Cola's secret recipe was stolen and sold to Pepsi! Or was it?

In 1939, Chief Henry Standing Bear requested a memorial be made in honor of Ta-sunko-witko, otherwise known as Crazy Horse, an Indian Chief of the Oglala band of Lakota. Work began in 1948, and is still being carved to this day!

Hundreds of years before the Aztecs, and slightly north of there, was Cahokia, the most important urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, with a population bigger than London and Paris at the time!

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If you're happy the United States has a Navy and Marines now, thank pirates!

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