In 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widows 86 year old daughter.
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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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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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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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