France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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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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