Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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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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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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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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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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