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    There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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    The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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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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    France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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    Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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    There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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    Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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