Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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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 Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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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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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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