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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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    There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    Moustache Tea Cups
    Moustache Tea Cups
    In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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    Fire Hydrant Patent
    Fire Hydrant Patent
    No one really knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.
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