During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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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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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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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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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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