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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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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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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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    The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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    If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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    February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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