When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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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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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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