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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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    Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih, once a prostitute, became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of China during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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    Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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    Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC!
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    There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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    Nuclear Survivor
    Nuclear Survivor
    In 1945, a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
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