The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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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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