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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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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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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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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