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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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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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    Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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