Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
184
In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
40
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
80
No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
45
In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
81
The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
60
France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
21
The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
98