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    Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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    Nobuo Fujita
    Nobuo Fujita
    The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.
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    In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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    The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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    Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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    There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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    The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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