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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    Mozart
    Mozart
    Mozart composed a song titled "Leck mich im Arsch", which translates to "Lick me in the arse".
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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 Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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    The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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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 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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    The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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