It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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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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In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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