A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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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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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 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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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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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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