People

Bizarre Fact #11:
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At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour.

Bizarre Fact #12:
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Beethoven used to take hay baths to remedy the swelling he used to get in his legs.

Bizarre Fact #13:
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Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary.

Bizarre Fact #14:
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Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.

Bizarre Fact #15:
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Chef Boyardee is actually a real person. His real name is Hector Boiardi and he was born in northern Italy in 1898.

Bizarre Fact #16:
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

Bizarre Fact #17:
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During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings (The Red Vineyard).

Bizarre Fact #18:
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Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.

Bizarre Fact #19:
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Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.

Bizarre Fact #20:
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Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940's.