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    In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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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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    Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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    In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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