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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih, once a prostitute, became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of China during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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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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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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    Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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    Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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    Nobuo Fujita
    Nobuo Fujita
    The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.
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