Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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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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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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