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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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    During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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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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    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 the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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    It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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