There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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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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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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