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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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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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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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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