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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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    The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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    Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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    Nuclear Survivor
    Nuclear Survivor
    In 1945, a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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