Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister” Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) Thxs, Sunflowerlove

Oscar Wilde and his friends came up with the word “dude”. It came from “duds” and “attitude”.

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of “Lorne Greene’s Wild Kingdom”

In 2006 a guy named Chris Putnam hacked into Facebook and made thousands of profiles look like MySpace profiles. Facebook hired him.

Former billionaire Chuck Feeney has given away over 6.3 billion dollars to help kids go to college. He is now worth 2 million dollars.

Author Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide recently, wanted to be cremated and his ashes to be shot out of a cannon on his ranch.

H.H. Holmes renovated a 3-story hotel with stairways to nowhere and a maze of over 100 rooms with no windows. He killed 200 people in it.

Draco, Athenian law-maker, was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre circa 620 BC.

Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley’s Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley’s Comet was in view again.

British medical photographer Janet Parker in a laboratory-associated outbreak, is the last person to die from smallpox on September 11, 1978.

A British teenager changed his name in 2008 to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel,the man who designed the Eiffel Tower,also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.

Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.

Bank robber “Pretty Boy” Floyd was known for destroying mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debts.

Before he had his own show, Jerry Seinfeld appeared on three episodes of the TV show “Benson” as the governor’s speechwriter.