In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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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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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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