The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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 average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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