Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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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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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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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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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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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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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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