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    The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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    Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    Moustache Tea Cups
    Moustache Tea Cups
    In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih, once a prostitute, became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of China during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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