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Narco-submarines – designed for smuggling cocaine
Otto Rahn was an author, poet, medievalist, SS officer, Grail-seeker and the inspiration for Indiana Jones
Srinivasa Ramanujan – the mathematical genius
The first roller-skates were invented in 1760 by a man called John-Joseph Merlin
Nadezhda Krupskaya – The woman at the very center of the organization of the Russian Bolshevik revolution. She was married to Lenin for 26 years.
The 1854 cholera outbreak of Broad Street. Everyone got sick except for those who drank beer instead of water
The Ghost of Hammersmith – Legal precedent of mistaken belief haunts lawyers for 200 years
Order of Maternal Glory – Soviet award for the women bearing and raising a large family
Samantha Smith was “ambassador” to the Soviet Union and died at the age of 13
At the Nuremberg trials, on an IQ test, all Nazi leaders showed above average intelligence, several considerably
