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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Tsar Bomba
    Tsar Bomba
    The largest nuclear bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, caused damage up to approximately 1,000km away.
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC!
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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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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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    At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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