France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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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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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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