In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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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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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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