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Why did the notoriously food-loving French parliament officially ban the cultivation of potatoes between 1748 and 1772?
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King Gustav III hated coffee so much he tried to tax it completely out of existence. When that inevitably failed, the government passed petty laws stating…
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Teamwork was apparently considered highly unsportsmanlike. The earliest rules completely forbade players from passing the puck forward to a teammate, forcing…
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The Spanish Crown thought they maintained an ironclad monopoly on the highly lucrative Asia-to-Americas trade route, but their own trusted ship captains were…
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Losing a war is embarrassing, but losing the approval of the entire universe is a real career killer. The 'Mandate of Heaven' meant that Chinese emperors…
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