- Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow because it took him a long time to learn how to speak.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary.
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(Added: Wed Sep 20 2006) - Hannibal, who was a soldier, had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - People who studies laughter are called a "gelotologists."
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour.
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(Added: Sat Feb 19 2005) - Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means "apple sauce" in Japanese.
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(Added: Thu Sep 21 2006) - Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Julie Nixon, daughter of Richard Nixon married David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight Eisenhower.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial.
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(Added: Thu Jan 12 2006) - The founder of JC Penny had the middle name of Cash.
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