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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih, once a prostitute, became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of China during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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    In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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    Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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    No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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    Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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