- Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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- Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
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- In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate.
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- Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna.
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- 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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- Richard Marowitz who lives in New Jersey once took one of Adolf Hitler's hats and now keeps it in safety deposit box. The hat is said to be worth $35,000.
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- 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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- Hannibal, who was a soldier, had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.
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- The political philosopher Karl Marx used to write articles for the New York Tribune in the early 1850's.
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- Thomas Edison once saved a boy from the path of an oncoming locomotive who was a station official's child. For his bravery, the boy's father taught Edison how to use the telegraph.
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- 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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- Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom.
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- Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
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