Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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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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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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