London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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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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