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    The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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    If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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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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    Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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    In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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    Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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