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    The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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    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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    At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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    In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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    Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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    In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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