In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China is considered the world’s oldest operating restaurant, first opening in 1153 AD during the Jing Dynasty.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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