The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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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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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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