The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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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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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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