A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.

Queen Victoria used marijuana, to help relieve menstrual cramp pain.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

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