Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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