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 first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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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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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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