Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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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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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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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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