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    In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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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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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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    In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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    There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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