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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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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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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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    No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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    In 1918, after the treaty of Versailles (end of WWI), the French Commander-in-chief said "This is not a peace. It is an Armistice for 20 years." 20 years and 65 days later, WWII happened.
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    To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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