When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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