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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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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