In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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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 Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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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 loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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