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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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    Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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    Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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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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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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    The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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