In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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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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