During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo

In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people’s clothes.

In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

During World War II, Uncle Ben’s was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.