The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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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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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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