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Bizarre Fact #171:
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John Hancock was the only one of fifty signers of the Declaration of Independence who actually signed it on July 4. Bizarre Fact #172:
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John has a long mustache was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches. Bizarre Fact #173:
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John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. Bizarre Fact #174:
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the fathers of communism, wrote 500 articles for the "New York Tribune" from 1851 to 1862. Bizarre Fact #175:
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Karl Marx was targeted for assassination when he met with two Prussian officers in his house in Cologne in 1848. Marx had friends among the German labor unions, and he was considered a threat to the autocrats. Dressed in his bathrobe, he forced the officers out at the point of a revolver, which, it turned out, was not loaded. Bizarre Fact #176:
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Karl Marx was targeted for assassination when he met with two Prussian officers in his house in Cologne in 1848. Marx had friends among the German labor unions, and he was considered a threat to the autocrats. Dressed in his bathrobe, he forced the officers out at the point of a revolver, which, it turned out, was not loaded. Bizarre Fact #177:
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King Charles VII, who was assassinated in 1167, was the first Swedish king with the name of Charles. Charles I, II, III, IV, V, never existed. No one knows why. To add to the mystery, almost 300 years went by before there was a Charles VIII (1448-57). Bizarre Fact #178:
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King Tut's tomb contained FOUR coffins. The third coffin was made from 2,500 pounds of gold. And in today's market is worth approximately $13,000,000. Bizarre Fact #179:
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Lafayette was a major general in the United States at the age of 19. Lafayette's whole name takes up an entire line on a page: Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Bizarre Fact #180:
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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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