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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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    Nobuo Fujita
    Nobuo Fujita
    The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.
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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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    Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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    Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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    After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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    In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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