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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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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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    In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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    Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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