Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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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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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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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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