- Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - After the death of the genius, Albert Einstein, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
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(Added: Wed Sep 20 2006) - Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon." Buzz was the second man to step onto the Moon in 1969.
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(Added: Tue Sep 19 2006) - Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940's.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wire.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Little Miss Muffet was a girl from the 16th century whose name was really Patience.
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(Added: Mon Jan 23 2006) - Mary Hart, the co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight, has each of her legs insured for one million dollars.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Mass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album titled "Lie."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Oprah Winfrey was the first black woman to anchor a newscast in Nashville at WTVF-TV.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven.
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(Added: Mon Jan 23 2006) - The famous Casanova (Giacomo Casanova) was a librarian for many years before he died.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The political philosopher Karl Marx used to write articles for the New York Tribune in the early 1850's.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space. She spent three days in space and completed forty-eight orbits of Earth.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
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