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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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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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    There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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    Nuclear Survivor
    Nuclear Survivor
    In 1945, a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
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    Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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