The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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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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