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 U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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