English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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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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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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