The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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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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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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