The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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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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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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