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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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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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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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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