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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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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In 1918, after the treaty of Versailles (end of WWI), the French Commander-in-chief said "This is not a peace. It is an Armistice for 20 years." 20 years and 65 days later, WWII happened.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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