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    Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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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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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Tsar Bomba
    Tsar Bomba
    The largest nuclear bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, caused damage up to approximately 1,000km away.
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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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