| Interesting Fact |
- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
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| Popular Quotes |
- Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
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| People Born Today |
- Samuel Butler, English poet & satirist (Hudibras)
- John Ruskin, writer & critic & artist & Gothic Revivalist
- William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general ("War is hell")
- Jules Verne, in France--pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
- Dame Edith Evans
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