A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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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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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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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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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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