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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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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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    If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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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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    Capt. Robert Campbell
    Capt. Robert Campbell
    Capt. Robert Campbell, a British officer captured during World War I, was granted leave to visit his dying mother on one condition - that he return to captivity. He kept his word and returned, only to try escaping as soon as he returned.
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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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