Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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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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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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