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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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    Voltaire's Last Words
    Voltaire's Last Words
    When Voltaire was asked to renounce Satan on his deathbed, his last words were: "This is no time for making new enemies."
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