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    Tsar Bomba
    Tsar Bomba
    The largest nuclear bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, caused damage up to approximately 1,000km away.
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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    Lincoln and Darwin Birthday
    Lincoln and Darwin Birthday
    Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.
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    The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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