Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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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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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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