There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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