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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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Allegedly, Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher, died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk and watching it try to eat figs.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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