In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
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Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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