"The Coffee Cantata" was written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
"The Pieta" is the only sculpture on which Michelangelo is believed to have carved his name.
Kenbei is an anti-American sentiment coined in the 1990s by the Japanese, and literally means hate America.
The average wedding feast in Yemen lasts 21 days.
Lolita's author Vladimir Nabokov once noted, "I dislike immersing myself in a swimming pool. It is, after all, only a big tub where other people join you makes one think of those horrible Japanese communal baths, full of a floating family, or a shoal of businessmen."
The average worker in Japan reportedly takes only half of his/her earned vacation time each year.
President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other simultaneously. Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other also simultaneously.
Sibling-less: Notables who were the only child in their families include Ansel Adams, Hans Christian Andersen, Carol Burnett, Raymond Chandler, Eric Clapton, Linda Ellerbee, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Englund, Charlton Heston, James Earl Jones, Ted Koppel, Ivan Lendl, Barry Manilow, Maria Montessori, Jack Nicholson, Flannery O'Connor, Al Pacino, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Robert Edwin Peary, Lisa Marie Presley, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frank Sinatra, Robin Williams, and Tiger Woods.
The biography of Thomas Crapper, the British sanitary engineer who invented the modern flush toilet in 1878, was called "Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper."
President John F. Kennedy commissioned Pierre Salinger to buy and stockpile 1,500 Havana cigars on the eve of signing the Cuban trade embargo.
Michael Caine fell in love with a woman he saw in a Maxwell House commercial and married Shakira Baksh.
A 1999 poll revealed that the female leaders most admired today are Eleanor Roosevelt, who received 36.1 percent of the votes, and Margaret Thatcher, with a close 35.4 percent.
The British slang for white-collar worker is "black-coat worker."
President John Tyler had fifteen children.
Michael Keaton's name at birth was Michael Douglas.
The closest that film star John Wayne came to military action was in 1944 during a three-month entertainment tour of Pacific bases. His boyhood wish of becoming a naval officer never came true, although he did come close to receiving an appointment to Annapolis. During World War II, he was rejected for military service. Wayne was never a cowboy, either. Odd jobs that "The Duke" held as a young man included those of fruit picker, iceman, truck driver, and movie propman.
President Taft weighed 352 pounds.
Mick Jagger, Britain's overtly sexual rocker, had a very conventional childhood. An excellent and disciplined student, Jagger majored in European history and literature at the prestigious London School of Economics before dropping out to form The Rolling Stones. He was the son of a physical education professor.
Jack the Ripper, the notorious murderer in nineteenth-century England, committed his crimes on weekends.
Henry Ford was obsessed with soybeans. He once wore a suit and tie made from soy-based material, served a 16-course meal made entirely from soybeans, and ordered many Ford auto parts to be made from soy-derived plastic.
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