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    Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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    It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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    Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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