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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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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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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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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