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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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.
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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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