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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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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