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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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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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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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