When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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