Did you know that New York City was initially called New Amsterdam and owned by Dutch? Moreover, it was given to British in exchange for few islands that were valuable only because of nutmeg trees that grew there.
I actually learned this fact from one of GMAT texts. Yes, very occasionally they were interesting.
yea.. when i went there – on manhattan island.. and i visited the statue of Liberty, before leaving mainland, there’s a statue below which it is inscribed…
you can see that here ..
https://plus.google.com/#photos/106520909457997995278/albums/posts/5758595240127837506
They Might Be Giants talk about that in their song Istanbul: “Even old New York was once New Amsterdam, Why the changed it I can say, people just liked it better that way!”