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1.) How did a German priest become the first person to write that an ocean lay west of the Americas?

2.) Why did Neanderthals have such big noses?

3.) What does medicine owe to Africa?

4.) Washingtoniana: What's Up With Those Horse Statues?

5.) What's the explanation for New England's day of darkness in 1780?

6.) Forget what you know about the Tulip bubble

7.) Celluloid-Film Patent Ignites Long Legal Battle

8.) Has Tibet always been a part of China or not?

9.) Why do we have a leap year?

10.) Is the Rio Grande Valley really a valley?

11.) Why was America named after Vespucci? Did he lie about his discovery?

12.) When did Americans become deodorant-crazy?

13.) Why they called it the Manhattan Project

14.) Where did WYSIWYG come from?

15.) Why did print reportters end their stories with -30- ?

16.) Why do we eat candy at the movies?

17.) Where did baseball begin?

18.) How the Windsors became the Windsors (They had to drop their German-sounding names)

19.) What should citizens of the United States be called?

20.) Where does the term quarantine come from?

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