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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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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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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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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