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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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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