Facts in category: People
| Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. |
| Russia's president Putin has worked in the KGB's foreign intelligence service. |
| Eskimoes use refrigerators to keep food from freezing. |
| Emir Beysari (1233-1293), an Egyptian of great wealth, drank wine from gold and silver cups, yet he never in all his life used the same cup twice. |
| Florence Nightingale served only two years of her life as a nurse. She contracted fever during her service in the Crimean War, and spent the last 50 years of her life as an invalid. |
| Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, both died on the same spot, and both during duels. Philip went first, 3 years before his father would be killed in that same field by Aaron Burr. |
| Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. |
| Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas was the eight-year-old girl who, in 1897, asked the staff of The New York Sun whether Santa Claus existed. In the now-famous editorial, Francis Church assured Virginia that yes, indeed, "there is a Santa Claus." |
| Henry Ford flatly stated that history is "bunk." |
| Elvis Presley died at the age of 42. Elvis' father died at age 42. |
| Jimi Hendrix was born in 1942. |
| The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary. |
| Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. |
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