Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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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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