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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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    Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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    The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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    Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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    In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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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 first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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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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