Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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