During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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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 Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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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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