The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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