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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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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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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 average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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    Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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    There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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