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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Scientists are excavating the ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the site.
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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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In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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