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A friend once said to me that everyone should learn one new thing each day. For instance, did you know that the famous painter Claude Monet had cataracts for a good period of his life? Or that songwriter Irving Berlin couldn't read music?

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What hath God wrought!"
First Morse code message from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, May 1844

“They are not as beautiful as they are painted. To some extent they have a human appearance in the face.”
Christopher Columbus, 1493, upon seeing a Manatee and thinking it a Mermaid

"The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward."
John Hancock on his signature on the Declaration of Independence

"The ordinary horseless carriage is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into common use as a bicycle."
The Literary Digest, October 14, 1899

Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

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