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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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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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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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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