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    In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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    Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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    Voltaire's Last Words
    Voltaire's Last Words
    When Voltaire was asked to renounce Satan on his deathbed, his last words were: "This is no time for making new enemies."
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    In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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    Nobuo Fujita
    Nobuo Fujita
    The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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