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The History of Fake Towns.

Stuff You Should Know

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The Starfish Bombing Raids

Cleveland Little came up with the idea to build a replica of Paris in World War I. The city was called Starfish sites, but later became known as Starfish cities. Estimates are they diverted about 700 bombing raids and potentially saved about 3000 lives.

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