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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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    Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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    Capt. Robert Campbell
    Capt. Robert Campbell
    Capt. Robert Campbell, a British officer captured during World War I, was granted leave to visit his dying mother on one condition - that he return to captivity. He kept his word and returned, only to try escaping as soon as he returned.
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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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