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    Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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    There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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    There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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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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    There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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    In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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    In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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