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  • Nobody knows where the body of Voltaire is. It was stolen from its tomb in the 19th century and has never been recovered. The theft was discovered in 1864, when the tomb was opened and found empty.

  • Novelist Charles Dickens always aligned his bed to face north. He also made it a point to face north when he wrote.

  • French novelist Marcel Proust suffered from hay fever, and was so allergic to pollen that he sealed himself in his room, windows shuttered and curtains drawn.

  • Galileo was the first man to suggest using a pendulum to run a clock.

  • George Custer was the youngest American officer ever to become a general in the United States Army. He made his rank at age twenty-three.

  • George Washington had two ice cream freezers installed at his home in Mount Vernon. 

  • George Washington left no direct descendant. Though his wife Martha had four children by a previous marriage., Washington never sired a child to continue his line.

  • George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, were all avid collectors and players of marbles. In their day, marbles were called "small bowls" and were as popular with adults as with children.

  • Four of the first six U.S. Presidents were age 57 when they were inaugurated. Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Adams, were also the last U.S. Presidents to be inaugurated at that age.

  • Franklin Delanor Roosevelt's birthday is a legal holiday in the Virgin Islands.

  • According to "People Weekly Entertainment Almanac," Bruce Willis was expelled during his senior year of high school after a racial disturbance. He was only permitted to graduate because his father hired an attorney to get him reinstated. 

  • According to one U.S. study, about 25 percent of all adolescent and adult males never use deodorant. 

  • According to sources, actress Meg Ryan's full name given at birth is Margaret Mary Emily Ann Hyra Ryan.

  • According to sources, Isabelle Adjani, Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudette Colbert, Catherine Deneuve, Kathie Lee Gifford, Yo-Yo Ma, Roman Polanski, and Roger Vadim were all born in Paris, France. 

  • Mozart once composed a piano piece that required a player to use two hands and a nose in order to hit all the correct notes.

  • Actress Susan Sarandon said in a 1993 interview, "Someone asked me if it was true that, once women had children, they didn't like to take their clothes off anymore. I said I didn't know any women any age who liked to take off their clothes." 

  • Mr. P. J. Tierney, father of the modern diner, died of indigestion in 1917 after eating at a diner.

  • After his death in 896, the body of Pope Formosus was dug up and tried for various crimes.

  • Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.

  • Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

  • American artist, Charles Wilson Peale named most of his 17 children after famous Artists - including Rembrandt, Titian, Rubens and Raphael.

  • Andrew Jackson was the first president to ride in a railroad train.

  • Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States was the only president who sewed his own clothes.

  • George Washington's face was badly scarred from smallpox.

  • Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession.

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