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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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    Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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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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    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih, once a prostitute, became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of China during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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    In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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    The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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