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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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    Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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    Ancient Fart Battles
    Ancient Fart Battles
    There are scrolls from the Edo period of Japan that suggest fart battles took place. The drawings show men blasting farts at other men, women, and even a cat.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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    The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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