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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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    The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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    There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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