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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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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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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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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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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