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    The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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    Shortest War
    Shortest War
    The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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    Fire Hydrant Patent
    Fire Hydrant Patent
    No one really knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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