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Air Force One has all kinds of weapons to defend itself... right? And a special skin to protect it? Find out!WWW

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There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.WWW

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Witness how childhood boredom escalated into the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials.WWW

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The Articles of Confederation proved to be more trouble than help, with individual states all pushing their interests and agendas, to the point of threatening the country as a whole.WWW

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Our vision of Paul Revere's midnight ride is all wrong, especially how it concludes.WWW

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George Washington was preceded by several other Presidents of the United States.WWW

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Benjamin Franklin was inquisitive but never crazy enough to fly a kite in an electrical storm as is often depicted.WWW

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The negative characterization of Edgar Allan Poe as a paranoid drug addict with the darkest of minds can be traced back to one man who was a rival of Poe's. There is no proof of drugs and his "darkness" is only inferred because of the scary stori ...WWW

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While Edison is surely one of our greatest inventors, his greatest contribution may have been perfecting existing inventions instead of creating that many new ones.WWW

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There are many common misperceptions about Hoover and FDR as political foes and as lawmakers.WWW

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Common perception is that the Lincoln and JFK assassinations have many parallels, but not so many when fact is separated from fiction.WWW

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Route 66 is the most famous road built in America except it was actually made by connecting existing major highways together. And it was constantly mutating.WWW

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Halloween in the early-to-mid-20th century was not a sweet nor pleasant holiday, but an excuse for pranks and general mischief.WWW

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Was President John F. Kennedy really interested in going to space? And how close we were to not being the first to get on the moon?WWW

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Paul Revere has been billed as America?s first action hero after his famous "Midnight Ride" but as truth would have it, he was part of a network.WWW

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Some of the most noteworthy photographers from the Civil War would move bodies around on the battlefield in order to achieve dramatic effect.WWW

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Snake oil wasn't always a scam.Chinese immigrants who came to the United States brought with them actual snake oil to help with the pains and inflammation brought on by strenuous railroad construction.WWW

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Harry Houdini was not only known for his illusions but also his myth busting, particularly when it came to the popular spiritualist movement of the 1920s which came about because of the end of World War I and the global influenza pandemic.WWW

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In the fourth century A.D. Christmas supplanted the Roman Saturnalia festival, but the tradition of wild celebrations continued.WWW

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Incredibly enough the mayor of New York City, Fernando Wood, suggested in 1861 that New York City secede and declare itself a free city because of its lucrative ties to the cotton industry.WWW

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