Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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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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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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