Post Some Amusing Facts!
01-26-2010, 01:11 PM
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.
In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13.
Richard Pavelle`s solved the Rubik's cube underwater with only needing five gulps of air.
Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wire.
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
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.
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.
In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13.
Richard Pavelle`s solved the Rubik's cube underwater with only needing five gulps of air.
Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wire.
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
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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