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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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    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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    English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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    The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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    The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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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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