During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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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 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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