A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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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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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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