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    The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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    During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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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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    Shortest War
    Shortest War
    The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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    During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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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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