"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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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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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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A female photographer in the 50s took tens of thousands of pictures and remained remained unknown until her death. She is now considered one of the most important street photographers ever.
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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 Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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