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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    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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    Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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    Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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    In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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