A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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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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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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