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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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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