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    On July 4, 1863 General John C. Pemberton surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The town of Vicksburg would not celebrate the Fourth of July for 81 years (1944).
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    why thank you good sir.
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    Before the United States entry to World War 2, the shoulder patch of the U.S 45th infantry division was a swastika and Hitler's private train was called Amerika. Both were changed for obvious reasons.
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    Nguyễn Sinh Cung better known as Hồ Chí Minh attended the Versailles peace talks in 1919. He petitioned for recognition of the civil rights of the Vietnamese people in French Indochina, but was ignored by the Western powers.
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    in the u.s. during the 1920s to in order to posess a suppressor (aka silencer) you would have to pay a $200 tax
    when a Ford automobile sold for $400.
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    The Communist Hungarian dictator Mátyás Rákosi in the 50's has ordered the peasant to grow lemons,oranges,and cotton...In central europe. I am dead serious I didn't make this up.
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    Groucho Marx and Karl Marx are not related, rather Marx is a Jewish last name.
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    albert einsteins eccentricities included picking up discarded cigarette butts off the street in order to circumvent his doctor's ban on buying tobacco for his pipe, piloting his sailboat on windless days (for the challenge),
    and lecturing his 8-year-old nephew on physics (including a 2-hour exposition on the Newtonian properties of soap bubbles).
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    It gets better. That guy played the bagpipes (which I've always thought is a pretty awesome and badass instrument) as he charged into battle, and sometimes during it. If you're wondering, these weren't easy battles against insignificant opponents. This was during World War II, against Nazis. He was the commanding officer of a special commando unit that saw plenty of dangerous and bloody action. He was also an expert archer, and killed several enemies with his longbow. Later in the war he survived being captured and tortured in a concentration camp and was on his way to the war in Japan when America dropped the nukes. He was disappointed with this, saying "If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years."
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    He was actually the only person who successfully killed enemy with a longbow.
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    I bet you got that from cracked :D
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    nope
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    i meant bender lol
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    what about me?
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    fuck, i meant @ironchin :D
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    No, I read about him in a book a couple of years ago, and did a quick google to refresh. Though in this case, what's wrong with cracked?
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    I bow to you, and you wisdom.(because I know that story from cracked:p )

    BTW nothing is wrong with cracked
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    i dunno if someone has already posted this but in 1935, Robert Watson-Watt was working on a “death ray” that would destroy enemy aircraft using radio waves but instead evolved and became the first radar—or “radio detection and ranging.

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