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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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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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    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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    Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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    The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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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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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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