The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith.

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Horatio Alger, the man whose name symbolized success, had many personal problems and died broke. His stories of poor boys who became rich inspired people to a better life -- but Alger himself did not profit by it.

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Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of "The Boy General" is one of the few women buried at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York

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Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek rather than Egyptian.

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Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

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Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd.

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The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in paleontology as the best example of that species.

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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

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Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.

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Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses.

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Lizzie Borden was acquitted.

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Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an ice-pick.

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Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.

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A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of course).