There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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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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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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