Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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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's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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