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Cleopatra wasn't actually the Pharaoh of Egypt. Rather, she was the last Pharaoh of Babylon.
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Though Pancho Villa is an important figure in Mexican history, his faction actually lost the Mexican Civil War.
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Thomas Edison flew a kite with a key attached to it in order to prove that lightning was made of electricity.
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Mao Zedong, the founder of China's communist regime, forced all citizens to carry around a "Little Red Book" containing quotes that he claimed to have invented.
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Cyrus was the founder of the Persian Empire.
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John MacDonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada, helped his country gain its independence by forming a militia and threatening war against Britain.
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Draco the Lawgiver from Greek history was such an enlightened ruler that the term "draconian" came to mean a ruler who defends civil liberties.
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The assassin Gavrilo Princip started World War Two by murdering Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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The Meiji Restoration of Japanese history was named after Emperor Meiji who rapidly modernized Japan during the era.
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Mahatma Gandhi's work on the Quit India Movement allowed him to become India's first president.
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Charles de Gaulle established France's current democratic system, which is actually the Fifth Republic of France.
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George Washington set the precedent in American politics that a president shouldn't serve more than two terms in office.
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Rasputin toppled the Russian monarchy and established the U.S.S.R. in its ashes.
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Christopher Columbus actually landed in Greenland, and not the North American mainland.
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Siddhartha Gautama, the original Buddha, is said to have been absorbed into a tree found in Bodh Gaya after he achieved enlightenment.
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Beethoven, Mozart, and Haydn were all famous musicians who were members of the Vienna School of classical music.
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Pol Pot was the military dictator of China who enacted the Tiananmen Square Massacre against protestors.
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Andrew Jackson was the first sitting American president to have assassination attempted against him.
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Theodore Roosevelt served two full terms as President of the United States but still ran later to try and get back in office.
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Genghis Khan was the only foreign invader to rule over all of China, Japan, and Korea at the same time.
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Though Florence Nightingale indirectly saved millions of lives by revolutionizing nursing, her name was attached to a mental syndrome that causes some nurses to become infatuated with people they treat.
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Joseph Stalin tore down the Iron Curtain of communism and brought about a new era of peace between the East and the West.
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Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, was actually born a slave.
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Marco Polo, the Silk Road explorer, wrote thoroughly about his journey into China but never mentioned the Great Wall.
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The German dictator Adolf Hitler was actually Austrian.
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Attila the Hun invaded Italy because a noblewoman named Honoria asked him politely to.
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The political philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously argued that no people should obey a government unless they elected its members.
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Pope Urban II enacted the First Crusade to conquer the Holy City of Tehran.
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The French dictator Maximilian Robespierre was the first President of France and was murdered by his vice president Napoleon Bonaparte who then seized power.
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Benito Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy by leading a March on Rome with tens of thousands of fascist supporters who convinced the government to simply put him in charge.
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