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    During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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    The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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    In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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    Tsar Bomba
    Tsar Bomba
    The largest nuclear bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, caused damage up to approximately 1,000km away.
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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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    Nuclear Survivor
    Nuclear Survivor
    In 1945, a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
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