The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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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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Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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