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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    Lincoln and Darwin Birthday
    Lincoln and Darwin Birthday
    Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.
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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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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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    Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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    In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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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 last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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