During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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