After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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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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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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