Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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