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 ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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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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