The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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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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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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