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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    Alexander Selkirk
    Alexander Selkirk
    Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was left stranded on a deserted island in 1704, but survived for over 4 years, partly by using feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night.
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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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    The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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