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A year after the Sinking of the Spanish Armada, Queen Elizabeth dispatched an English armada to Spain in revenge. It was also mostly sunk.

The story of Mulan was told in China for over a thousand years before Disney adapted it into film.

Over the years, SR-71s Blackbirds have managed to outfly thousands of missiles fired at them.

What 1900 people thought life would be like in the year 2000: machines to control the weather.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor: "To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse—German."

What 1900 people thought life would be like in the year 2000: North Pole tourism. (Probably will happen with climate change...)

The Roman Empire was only 17th largest in history.

Leonardo da Vinci was a bodybuilder, strong enough to bend an iron horseshoe with his bare hands.

Henry III of France reportedly kept 2,000 lap dogs and regularly wore a basket of puppies around his neck.

This 350 year old Dutch painting appears to show a man using a smartphone (but it's probably just a similarly shaped object).