The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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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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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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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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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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