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Interesting Facts - Page 107
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A man named James Shields once challenged Abraham Lincoln to a duel. Lincoln accepted, but chose broadswords as the method of combat. On the day of the duel, Shields saw Lincoln's enormous wingspan and strength and decided to call the whole thing off.
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James Monroe was going to have a duel with Alexander Hamilton, but Aaron Burr intervened.
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The leader of Turkmenistan recently built a 19 foot tall gilded statue of his favorite dog breed. Its base includes a wrap-around LED display with videos of the dog in action.
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There was once a city in Philippines named Sexmoan. It changed its name to Sasmuan in 1991.
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There are parts of the Netherlands inside of Belgium inside of the Netherlands.
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It's interesting because one is a former Phoenician colony, founded ca. 1100 BCE, and the other is a former Greek one, founded 400 years later. These two cities were probably fighting for dominance over the Mediterranean trade in antiquity, yet today they are rather forgotten parts of their respective countries, who have assumed two totally different, somewhat clashing, identities (not unlike the past either), for more recent historical reasons. These are the tidbits that make me fascinated with History!
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There are houses were you could be sleeping in Belgium and cooking in Netherlands. In public ways, the borders are marked so you can tell in which country you are.
Of course, they're blessed by being in two close-allied countries (generally speaking), within the same economic and customs zone, and using the same currency. Something the intricated system of enclaves of India and Bangladesh can't say.
The UK town named Tinkerbush