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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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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