Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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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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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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