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    Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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    The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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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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    The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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