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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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
341
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
573
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
67
The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
23
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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