Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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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 exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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