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Apples were once thought to be evil because of the story of Adam and Eve. Assassins were originally called 'Hashishin', because they used hashish to give them courage.
Aspirin comes from willow bark. Ants have tiny brains. Some have only 250,000 brain cells.
The armour of Chinese soldiers was once made of toughened paper. Ancient Greeks invented the automatic door.
Ancient Greece had the astrolabe, an astrological computer made of gears and cogs that was so accurate it could predict eclipses. Mary Anderson devised the windscreen-wiper in 1903.
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