A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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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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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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