English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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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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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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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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