Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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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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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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The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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