Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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