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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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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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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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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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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