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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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    In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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    In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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    No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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    France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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    The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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