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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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    Tsar Bomba
    Tsar Bomba
    The largest nuclear bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, caused damage up to approximately 1,000km away.
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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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    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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    The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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    Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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    The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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