Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency.

More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.

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