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    The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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    The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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