The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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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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