An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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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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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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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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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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In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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