During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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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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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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