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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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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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    Nobuo Fujita
    Nobuo Fujita
    The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.
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    There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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    Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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    There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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