Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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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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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
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