The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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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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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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