The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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