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Truth.
Each of the four faces of the aluminum capstone of the Washington Monument, the tallest building in D.C., have inscriptions. Three of them are basically just names and dates of the people involved in setting the capstone, but on the east face, the face that catches the sun every morning, are the words Laus Deo and nothing else.
Round 5
Fact 1: Moses is often depicted with horns growing out of his head in sculptures and paintings because of a single mistranslation of the Bible in the 14th century.
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Fact 2: Isaac Newton once wrote to his friend about ancient mysteries they had discovered, saying that they could not become general knowledge without quote "immense danger to the world," so Isaac hid that knowledge forever.
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