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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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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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    Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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    Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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