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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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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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    Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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    Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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    If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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    Moustache Tea Cups
    Moustache Tea Cups
    In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
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