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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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    In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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    The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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    Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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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 flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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