Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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