The first text message was sent in 1992 and read 'Merry Christmas'.

The longest recorded rally in professional tennis lasted 643 shots in a match in 1984.

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The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed partly to slow typists down and prevent typewriter jams.

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Music can influence mood and emotional state.

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Mozart composed his first symphony at age eight.

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Particles can exist in multiple states until observed.

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Light behaves as both a particle and a wave simultaneously — this is called wave-particle duality.

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The Library of Alexandria may have held up to 700,000 scrolls before its destruction.

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Ancient Norse mythology described the world as a giant tree — Yggdrasil — connecting nine different realms.

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