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    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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    The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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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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    Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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    The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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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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