In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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