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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Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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