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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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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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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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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