During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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In 1918, after the treaty of Versailles (end of WWI), the French Commander-in-chief said "This is not a peace. It is an Armistice for 20 years." 20 years and 65 days later, WWII happened.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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