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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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    During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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