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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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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