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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih, once a prostitute, became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of China during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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    The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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    Scientists are excavating the ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the site.
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    Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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