Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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During his lifetime, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold only 50 copies.
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Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
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Whoopi Goldberg's real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
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When Prince William becomes king, he will be the forty-fourth monarch since William the Conqueror who was crowned in 1066.
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Michael Jackson used a special shoe to perform his "Smooth Criminal" lean trick.
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