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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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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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    There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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    The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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    Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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    The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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