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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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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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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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    The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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