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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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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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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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    Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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