Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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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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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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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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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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