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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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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