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    The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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    During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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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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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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