During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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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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