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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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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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    After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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