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    Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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    Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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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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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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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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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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