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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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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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