- When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Bill Gates donated close to $100 million to fight AIDS in India. As a percent of his total wealth, this would be comparable to him donating ten cents if he only had $60.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Albert Einstein was cremated and his ashes were spread over a river located in New Jersey.
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(Added: Mon Jan 23 2006) - General William Booth is the founder of the Salvation Army.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Beethoven used to take hay baths to remedy the swelling he used to get in his legs.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings (The Red Vineyard).
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The artist Michelangelo's full name in Italian is Michaelangelo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind.
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(Added: Sun Jan 22 2006) - Malcolm X's real name is Malcolm Little.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Italian philosopher and scientist Galileo Galilei's middle finger can be found on display at Italy's Museo di Storia del Scienza.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Chef Boyardee is actually a real person. His real name is Hector Boiardi and he was born in northern Italy in 1898.
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(Added: Mon Jan 23 2006) - Saint Patrick's real name was Maewyn Succat.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Richard Pavelle`s solved the Rubik's cube underwater with only needing five gulps of air.
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(Added: Mon Jan 23 2006) - The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Ralph Lauren's real name is Ralph Lifshitz.
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