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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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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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    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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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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