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Music was a highly regarded sideline for theoretical study in the Middle Ages.  Christian churches and monasteries were places of knowledge, and musical tests were copied for later generations.  However, instrumental music was rejected as too secular and professional musicians were regarded as social outsiders.

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“It’s not the will to win that matters… Everyone has that.  It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
 - Paul “Bear” Bryant

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The current average credit card percentage rate in the U.S.A. is 17% (as high as 26% in some instances) while banks can borrow at 2%. 

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According to the Guiness Book of World Records, as a solo artist, part of a duo or as a member of the groups Beatles and Wings, Paul McCartney owns the record for the person who has written the most number one singles in music history with 29.  Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees holds down the number two spot by having written 21.

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Fast Fact: The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii.

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Driskill Mountain – 535 feet (163 m) above sea level is the highest point in Louisiana. And New Orleans – 8 feet (2.5 m) below sea level is the lowest.

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