Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were originally considered a delicacy, only enjoyed by those of the upper class.
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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