Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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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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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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