India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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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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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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