During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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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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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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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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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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