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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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    The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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