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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih, once a prostitute, became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of China during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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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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    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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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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    The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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    Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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