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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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    Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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    Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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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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