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    Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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    During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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    No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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