France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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