"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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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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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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