Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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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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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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