The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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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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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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