In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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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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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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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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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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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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