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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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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