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Carey Mulligan, an actress, and Marcus Mumford, a singer, were pen pals during their childhood. They lost contact, later reconnected as adults, and eventually got married.

In the Pacific campaign of World War II, the Navajo language was employed to send top-secret messages. Its complexity and rarity made it indecipherable to the Japanese Army.

Bestselling author Anne Rice, known for "Interview with the Vampire," was originally named Howard Allen. On her first school day, she told a nun her name was "Anne" because she preferred it, and her mother permitted the change, legally altering it in 1947.

Annually, Americans work more hours than their Japanese counterparts.

David Kaczynski, like his brother Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, initially rejected society, living in a hole in the Texas desert covered by metal sheets. He eventually rejoined society and informed the FBI, leading to Ted's arrest.

Robert Kirkman's initial pitch for "The Walking Dead" comic was rejected for being too "normal." He revised it to suggest the zombie virus was caused by aliens. Although he never planned to include this in the comic, the pitch was accepted.

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay ended their producing partnership after McKay cast John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss in HBO's "Winning Time" without notifying Ferrell, who found out about his replacement directly from Reilly.

In the 1980s, at a Las Vegas craps table, Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, rubbed Eddie Murphy's head for luck, saying, "Let me rub your head for luck, boy." Murphy refrained from hitting Parker, noting the 80-year-old was "too old to be taught the limits of racism."

Research in 2019 revealed that women purchased 62% of all new cars in the U.S. and influenced over 85% of car purchases overall.

On the brink of World War II in 1939, stockbroker Nicholas Winton saved 669 Czechoslovakian Jewish children by bringing them to England. He shunned recognition until his wife discovered a scrapbook of the children he saved and shared it with the BBC. Winton passed away in 2015 at the age of 106.

Sources: 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190

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