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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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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