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    In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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    There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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    Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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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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    Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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    The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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