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 first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC!
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Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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