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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 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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    The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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    In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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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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