In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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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 Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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