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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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