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In 1850, Levi Strauss was paid $6.00 in gold dust for his first pair of jeans.

The word "curfew" is derived from an old French word that means "cover fire." In
Europe during the Middle Ages, a curfew was a metal cone or shield that was used
to put out the hearth fire in the evening. The word "curfew" came to mean the end
of the day's activities.

The bite of a leech is painless due to its own anaesthetic.

While the world was busy welcoming the arrival of the twentieth century on
December 31, 1900, a forceful gale on England's Salisbury Plain blew over one of
the ancient monumental stones at Stonehenge.

Wonder what pillar it was?

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