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    Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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    The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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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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