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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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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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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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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