5 Famous People Who Failed First But Won Eventually

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3.Charles Darwin

At the age of nine Charles entered Shrewsbury School. He was not a very good student. In 1825 Darwin went to Edinburgh University in Scotland to study medicine, but he soon realized that he was unable to even watch an operation being performed. He abandoned it and went on create the foundation of evolutionary biology, ‘On the Origin of Species’.

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