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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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    English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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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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    Kung Fu actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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    The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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    In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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