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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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    Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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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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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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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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    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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    In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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