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    Golf and football were both banned in Scotland in 1457, because they had become too much of a distraction from the war effort against England.

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Spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military facility in Sverdlovsk

On the 2nd April, 1979, a military facility in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) 900 miles from Moscow, accidentally released spores of anthrax which killed around 100 people.

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