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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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    During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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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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