Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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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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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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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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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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