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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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    A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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    Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC!
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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    The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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