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Nov-27-2011 03:27
Marie Currie, who twice won the Nobel Prize, and discovered radium, was not allowed to become a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman.
John D. Rockefeller gave away over US$ 500,000,000 during his lifetime.
John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.
Sir Winston Churchill rationed himself to 15 cigars a day.
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply …' if you were my wife, I would drink it ! '.
One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 metre diameter, half tonne cheese.
Catherine the First of Russia, made a rule that no man was allowed to get drunk at one of her parties before nine o'clock.
During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's beards.
Queen Elizabeth I passed a law which forced everyone except for the rich to wear a flat cap on Sundays.
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