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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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