The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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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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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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