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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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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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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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