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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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    Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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    The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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    Japanese Holdout
    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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    If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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    Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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