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* Einstein was 4 years old before he could speak.

* Issac Newton did poorly in grade school and was cosidered "unpromising."

* Beethoven's music teacher once said of him, "As a composer, he is hopeless."

* When Thomas Edison was a youngster, his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. He was counseled to go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.

* F. W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employer would not permit him to wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense to close a sale."

* Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Boston Celtics, Hall of Famer, Bob Cousy suffered the same fate.

* A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

* Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade and had to repeat it because he did not complete the tests that were required for promotion.

* A person may make mistakes, but isn't a failure until he, or she, starts blaming someone else. WE must BELIEVE in OURSELVES, and somewhere along the road of life, we must meet someone who sees greatness in us, expects it from us, and lets us know it. It is the golden key to success.

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*When Caroline Kennedy's father was president, there was a Caroline doll available in stores.


*The velocity of a pitched baseball is about 8 mph faster as it leaves the pitcher's hand than when it reaches home plate.

*No two-cycle engines are allowed in Singapore. The license fee for a new car is small, about $5, but as the vehicle grows older, the fee increases. When the auto reaches 8 years old, it is no longer allowed on the streets. This is opposite of the license-fee structure in the U.S. While strict, Singapore's auto law has virtually wiped out air pollution in the country.

*Pollen grains are so tiny and uniform they have been used to calibrate instruments that measure in thousandths of an inch. Forget-me-not pollen grains are so small that 10,000 of them can fit on the head of a pin.

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*Singer Mick Jagger was once a porter at a mental hospital.

*Musician Eric Clapton grew up thinking his mum was his sister.

*After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.

*The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.

* India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

* Until the 1960's men with long hair, bear or mustache were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

* On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."

* Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

*The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Miami Beach pharmacist Benjamin Green invented the first suntan cream by cooking cocoa butter in a granite coffee pot on his wife's stove, and then testing the batch on his own head. His invention was introduced as Coppertone Suntan Cream in 1944.

Only two women directors have been nominated for an Oscar by the Academy for achievement in directing: Lina Wertmuller in 1976 for Seven Beauties and Jane Campion in 1993 for The Piano. To date, no woman has won an Oscar for directing.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

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Spiders never spin webs in structures made of chestnut wood. That is why so many European chateaux were built with chestnut beams - spider webs on a 50-foot beamed ceiling can be difficult to clean.

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did you know that the inventor of an electric chair was adentist!!!!!

oh god i knew they were evil!!!!!

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Andorra has no unemployment

Israel enjoys a GDP per capita 21 times that of the Palestinian West Bank and 33 times that of the Gaza Strip. Its military spending per capita tops the world.

Luxembourgers, the world's richest people are also the most generous.

The United States spends more money on its military than the next 12 nations combined.

The United States consumes more energy than India, the Middle East, South America, Africa, South East Asia and Oceania combined (3.1 billion people).


Guatamalan women work 11.5 hours a day, while South African men work only 4.5.

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part of what made Einstein so important is that he didn't take anything that he learned as a fact - therefore it was said he had learning difficulties, he just didn't want to listen to anything he was taught, and also it enabled him to think of more radical scientific approaches.