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 universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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