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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    Kung Fu actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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    When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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    A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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    Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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