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    Voltaire's Last Words
    Voltaire's Last Words
    When Voltaire was asked to renounce Satan on his deathbed, his last words were: "This is no time for making new enemies."
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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 last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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    Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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    The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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