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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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    Candle Clocks
    Candle Clocks
    Before clocks, there were candle clocks that when burned, indicated the passage of periods of time. To set an alarm, you pushed a nail into the desired point and the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder.
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    In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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    Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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    There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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    In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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