One day, Nimrod Robertson of the Yukon Territory shot a bear. As he had lost all of his own teeth, he fashioned a plate out of the bear's teeth. He then proceeded to eat the bear with its own teeth, The Mohammedan conqueror, Ala-ud-Din Kilji, invaded India and laid siege to Delhi in 1296. After the aggressor ran out of stone cannonballs for the catapults, he opened his treasury and ordered the engines loaded with bags of solid gold. After several hundred rounds, the bewildered garrison surrendered the fortress. A single round weighed about a hundred pounds, so this golden ammunition cost the victor about fifteen million dollars, Believe It or Not!
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