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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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    The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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    Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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    Rocket Mail
    Rocket Mail
    In 1959, the USPS attempted to deliver mail via cruise missile and successfully shipped 3,000 pieces of mail from Virginia to Florida in 22 minutes.
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    Winston Churchill's Letter of Apology for Escaping from Prison
    Before escaping prison, Winston Churchill left a letter of apology on his bed. The letter began: "I have the honour to inform you that as I do not consider that your Government have any right to detain me as a military prisoner, I have decided to escape from your custody."
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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    The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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