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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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    Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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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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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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    Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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    In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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