Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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