The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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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 Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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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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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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