Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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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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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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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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