Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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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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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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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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The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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