Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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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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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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