Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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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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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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