Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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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 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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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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