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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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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