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Famous Russian author Dostoyeski died in poverty. One copper kopeka coin was found in his wallet.

Famous Russian composer Tchaikovsky died from drinking unboiled water during a cholera epidemic.

Dostoyevski had epilepsy. He wrote a book, The Idiot, about a person with epilepsy.

Thérèse of Liseaux promised to send ‘showers of roses’ after her death.

Blue-eyed people have the highest rate of alcohol dependence, and are therefore more likely to be drunks.

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Erich von Danikan, of ‘Chariots of the Gods ‘ fame, was convicted of embezzlement and served prison time.

Twice.

James Earl Jones once traveled across the United States and used his legendary Darth Vader voice to talk to truck drivers on his CB radio- but he had to stop doing it because he kept freaking people out.

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During the filming of the first ‘Star Wars’ film, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford were having an affair.

‘Petrichor’ is the soothing, earthy, and wonderfully pleasant smell of rain falling on dry ground. The term is derived from the ancient Greek words ‘petra,’ which means 'stone,’ and 'ichor,’ which is the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods.

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A great singers nick name is The velvet fog

Virtually all the matter we ever interact with is made of only three particles, up quarks, down quarks, and electrons, but each of these has two more heavier cousins with nearly identical properties, although the laws of physics permit or encourage them to decay into the lighter variants in fractions of a second.

What do Henry Luce, Nikita Krushchev, JFK, Norman Mailer and Fidel Castro have in common? They all were lovers of Lady Jeanne Campbell.

Ancient Egyptians were using 20-sided die as early as 200 BCE.

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The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs have a disclaimer at the beginning given by Whoopi Goldberg. She explains that the cartoons are a product of their time and contain racial and ethnic stereotypes that have not been censored because ‘editing them would be the same as denying that the stereotypes existed.’

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