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Mary Toft was an Englishwoman who, in 1726, hoaxed doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.
Most, if not all, of the accusations against Marie Antoinette were untrue and probably lifted from rumors begun by libelles.
Philo Farnsworth, (inventor of first working electronic television system) produced prototypes of electron tubes while in High School.
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss made his first ground-breaking mathematical discoveries while still a teenager.
Einstein's brain was removed within seven hours of his death. Studies found part of Einstein's brain missing while another was 15% larger.
The Sabatini Gardens (part of the Royal Palace in Madrid) was named after Francesco Sabatini, an Italian architect of the 18th century.
The Crown of Aragon, by the 14th and 15th centuries, controlled a large portion of the present-day eastern Spain, and Southwestern France.
In the early drafts of Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker's name was "Anakin Starkiller".
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that destroyed about four square miles in Chicago, Illinois.
The first documented appearance of the word "nerd" is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book "If I Ran the Zoo" (1950)
The word "encyclopaedia" means "general knowledge" in Classical Greek; "enkyklios" meaning "cyclical", and "paideia" meaning "education".
On LOST, certain characters are named after influential figures in the history of philosophy, such as John Locke and Mikhail Bakunin.
Johnny Cash proposed to June Carter during a live performance in London, Ontario.
Quentin Tarantino postponed the making of Inglorious Basterds to write and direct Kill Bill.
A Brief History of Time (written by Stephen Hawking) was on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for more than four years.
Besides being a revolutionary, Che Guevara was a medical student, physician, and author.
Genghis Khan died in 1227, when he fell off his horse during a horseback pursuit from the land of present day Egyp.
More than 21,000,000 US gallons (79,000,000 L) of Agent Orange were sprayed across South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
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