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During the ice age, people in the used humans skulls as cups
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In ancient Egypt, when a ruler would die all of his servants and animals were buried alive with him
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Alexander the Great is famous for a spying technique still used today. He had all his soldiers write home to their families and then intercepted the letters. Whoever didn’t have something nice to say was executed.
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It has been calculated that in the last 3,000 years there have only been 240 years of peace in the world
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At its peak the Roman Empire stretched for 2.51 million square miles. It was only the 19th largest empire in history.