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    Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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    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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    In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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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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    In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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