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.”
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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