Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.
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As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!
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Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
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Elvis Presley got a 'C' in his eighth grade music class.
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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