In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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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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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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