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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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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 how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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    Rocket Mail
    Rocket Mail
    In 1959, the USPS attempted to deliver mail via cruise missile and successfully shipped 3,000 pieces of mail from Virginia to Florida in 22 minutes.
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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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