In an interview with Taylor Swift in 2005, she was told, "If music doesn't work out, you could be a hair model". Seven years later, the same woman interviewed her again and apologized for what she said.

Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.

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