There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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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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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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