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Actress Gene Tierney's child was born deaf and developmentally disabled in the 1940s because she contracted Rubella (German measles) while pregnant, after a fan violated a Rubella quarantine and interacted with her.
Rats generally prefer silence to music by Beethoven or Miles Davis, but when under the influence of drugs, they develop a liking for jazz.
In Ethiopia, 2005, three lions saved a 12-year-old girl from kidnappers who intended to force her into marriage. The lions chased away the abductors and stood guard until police arrived.
Residents in extremely poor areas like the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, often resort to using "flying toilets," where plastic bags serve as makeshift toilets and are then thrown away.
Dmitri Mendeleev, who created the Periodic Table of Elements, was nominated nine times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry but never won, as Svante Arrhenius, the 1903 laureate, consistently blocked him due to a personal grudge over Mendeleev's criticism of his work.
Coldplay has kept the same lineup since its formation almost 30 years ago (as of March 2025), with the original four members continuing to perform and tour without using additional touring musicians.
South Korean footballer Ahn Jung-hwan scored the decisive goal against Italy in the 2002 World Cup, which led to his contract being terminated by his Italian club's owner, who was displeased with the outcome.
Gavrilo Princip, the student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, maintained that he wasn't responsible for starting World War I, arguing that the war would have occurred regardless of his actions.
The Netherlands consumes approximately 750,000 sandwiches made with chocolate sprinkles and butter, known as Hagelslag, every day.
After surviving an assassination attempt, Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech beginning with, "Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
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