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| An artist from Chicago created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham. |
| Hitler was a vegetarian. |
| Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest. |
| Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress. |
| Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years. |
| Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem. |
| The youngest Pope was 11 years old. |
| The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage." |
| The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956. |
| King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats. |
| Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names. |
| Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church. |
| Napoleon was terrified of cats. |
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