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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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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