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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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    Scientists are excavating the ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the site.
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    The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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    If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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    Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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    No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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