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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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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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    Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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    The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    Nuclear Survivor
    Nuclear Survivor
    In 1945, a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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