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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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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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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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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