The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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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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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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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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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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