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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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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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    Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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    Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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    The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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