Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid
of the dark!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel,
"Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words
-- none of them with the letter E!
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
during a dance.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a
sandbox.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose
Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria
de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima
Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
Of the six men who made up the Three
Stooges, three of them were real brothers.
(Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his
ninth birthday. His parents thought he was
mentally retarded.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered
having an abortion but was talked out of it by
her doctor.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Walt Disney got his idea for Mickey Mouse
while he worked in a garage. He was
watching the mice play one night and got the
inspiration for Mortimer Mouse. He didn't
change the name until shortly before he
finished the first Mickey Mouse cartoon - the
1928 "Steamboat Willie".
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad
space on his cows.
Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary
school.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair
from their bodies, including their eyebrows
and eyelashes.
During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's
timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only
sold 50 copies.
The world's greatest lover was King Mongut
of Siam. He had 9,000 wives. Before dying of
syphilis, he was quoted in saying he only
loved the first 700.
of the dark!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel,
"Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words
-- none of them with the letter E!
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
during a dance.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a
sandbox.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose
Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria
de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima
Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
Of the six men who made up the Three
Stooges, three of them were real brothers.
(Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his
ninth birthday. His parents thought he was
mentally retarded.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered
having an abortion but was talked out of it by
her doctor.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Walt Disney got his idea for Mickey Mouse
while he worked in a garage. He was
watching the mice play one night and got the
inspiration for Mortimer Mouse. He didn't
change the name until shortly before he
finished the first Mickey Mouse cartoon - the
1928 "Steamboat Willie".
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad
space on his cows.
Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary
school.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair
from their bodies, including their eyebrows
and eyelashes.
During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's
timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only
sold 50 copies.
The world's greatest lover was King Mongut
of Siam. He had 9,000 wives. Before dying of
syphilis, he was quoted in saying he only
loved the first 700.
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