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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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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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    Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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