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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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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