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1. When General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown in 1781, the British band played "The World Turned Upside Down"
2. In his medical writings dating from the 1st century AD, Aulus Cornelius Celus described methods of operating on the brain that were often successful.
3. Despite multiple storms, a series of mutinies, and the murder of their commander himself by vicious natives, Magellan's crew completed the first circuit of the globe in 1522.
4. Did you know the Great Pyramid was the tallest building in the world until the 19th century?
5. Did you know there were over 35 documented attempts on Hitler's life?
6. The Berlin subway system operated almost normally until the last month of the war.
7. After his defeat at the Battle of Long Island, George Washington managed to miraculously evacuate thousands of his troops overnight, thus allowing the Continental Army to continue to fight and eventually win the war.
8. In 1836, Sam Houston's Texan troops defeated General Santa Anna's entire army in 18 minutes
9. It is astounding to me that at this very moment humans are living beyond the limits of earth's atmosphere
10. Last year doctors performed the first full transplant of a human face.
11. Fact: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died within five hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,1826
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