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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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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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    There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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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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    In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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    The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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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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