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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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    A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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    Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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    Nuclear Survivor
    Nuclear Survivor
    In 1945, a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
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    France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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