Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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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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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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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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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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