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    The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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    Capt. Robert Campbell
    Capt. Robert Campbell
    Capt. Robert Campbell, a British officer captured during World War I, was granted leave to visit his dying mother on one condition - that he return to captivity. He kept his word and returned, only to try escaping as soon as he returned.
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    February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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