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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    Voltaire's Last Words
    Voltaire's Last Words
    When Voltaire was asked to renounce Satan on his deathbed, his last words were: "This is no time for making new enemies."
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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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    Alexander Selkirk
    Alexander Selkirk
    Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was left stranded on a deserted island in 1704, but survived for over 4 years, partly by using feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night.
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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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