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Seven oddities from our research.
In the 1850s, much of central Chicago was raised several feet by men turning jackscrews.
In 1983, the Soviet Union's early warning system reported that the U.S. had launched a nuclear missile toward Moscow.
In 1876, an inept gang of Chicago counterfeiters planned to steal Abraham Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom.
During World War II, two Polish doctors saved 8,000 of their countrymen by faking an epidemic.
In 1959, white writer John Howard Griffin traveled the segregated South disguised as a black man.
In 1955, Quaker Oats gave away deeds to tiny plots of land in northwestern Canada.
In the 1850s, mail was carried through the California mountains by one man on skis.