Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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