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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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    In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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    Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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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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    There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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    The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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