Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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