Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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