The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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