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    In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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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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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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