Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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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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Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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