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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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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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    Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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