People
Poet/writer Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from West Point
the United States Military Academy, because he showed
up for a parade in his birthday suit
Dustin Hoffman, as Tootsie, wore a size 36C bra.
Michael Keaton's name at birth was Michael Douglas.
The first person other than royalty to be portrayed
on a British stamp was William Shakespeare in 1964
Martha Washington was referred to as "Lady Washington."
Mary Todd Lincoln was the first presidential
wife to be referred to as "The First Lady
Ten percent of men are left-handed and eight
percent of women are left-handed.
Stevie Wonder was 11 years old when he signed
his first record contract with Motown.
Jack the Ripper, the notorious murderer in
nineteenth-century England, committed his crimes on weekends
During World War I, Woodrow Wilson's wife grazed
sheep on the front lawn of the White House.
Steve Martin studied philosophy at California State
University at Long Beach, and for a time, considered becoming
a philosophy professor instead of an actor-comedian-writer
President Taft weighed 352 pounds.
