Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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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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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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