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    Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    Ancient Fart Battles
    Ancient Fart Battles
    There are scrolls from the Edo period of Japan that suggest fart battles took place. The drawings show men blasting farts at other men, women, and even a cat.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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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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    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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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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