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    Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture And Everything In Between

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    Interesting Facts for Curious Minds by Jordan Moore is a fun and engaging collection of 1,572 random facts spanning history, science, pop culture, and more. Perfect for trivia lovers and curious minds, this book offers bite-sized, mind-blowing tidbits that will surprise and entertain. Whether you're looking to learn something new or impress friends with cool facts, this book is a delightful read for anyone who loves to explore the world’s wonders.

    You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
    I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

    ALMOST RICH AND FAMOUS
     
    �       Nine­teen-year-old British woman, Rachael Kennedy, found out what
    it’s like to almost have a for­tune in 2021. Kennedy had all the right
    num­bers to win the £182/$237 mil­lion pot, but she didn’t have the
    funds in her lot­tery auto­mat­ic pay­ment account!
     
    �            The quote, “In the future, every­one will be world-famous for 15
    min­utes” is often attrib­uted to eccen­tric Amer­i­can artist Andy Warhol,
    but its ori­gins are a bit obscure.
     
    �       Tracii Guns was one of the founders of the 1980s rock ban, Guns N’
    Ros­es. He left in 1983, lat­er stat­ing that “it just wasn’t fun any­more.”
     
    �            More than 200 peo­ple false­ly claimed to be respon­si­ble for the
    Lind­bergh baby kid­nap­ping in 1932. Most were fame seek­ers.
     
    �            Texas lawyer and polit­i­cal donor Har­ry Whit­ting­ton kept a low
    pro­file until Feb­ru­ary 11, 2006, when US Vice Pres­i­dent Dick Cheney
    shot and wound­ed him in a hunt­ing acci­dent.
     
    �            In 2006, Har­vard stu­dent Kaavya Viswanathan looked poised for a
    lucra­tive career as a writer when her book How Opal Mehta Got
    Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life was pub­lished. It turned out large
    por­tions were pla­gia­rized, end­ing Viswanathan’s writ­ing career.
     
    �       Mon­ey and fame/recognition are cit­ed in many stud­ies as two of the
    most com­mon moti­vat­ing fac­tors in people’s lives.
     
    �       Dik (aka Dick) Evans was one of the found­ing mem­bers of the band,
    Feed­back. The oth­er mem­bers thought Evans was too old, so they
    fired him and changed their name to U2.
     
    �            In 1961, lit­tle known broth­ers Richard McDon­ald and  Mau­rice
    McDon­ald  sold their small south­ern Cal­i­for­nia chain of ham­burg­er
    restau­rants they called “McDon­alds” to entre­pre­neur Ray Kroc for
    $2.7 mil­lion.
     
    �            Pete Best was the orig­i­nal drum­mer for the Bea­t­les but was fired in
    1962. The Bee­tles then invad­ed Amer­i­ca and Best went on to form the
    long-for­got­ten ‘The Pete Best Four’.
     
    �            Fil­ip­po Bernar­di­ni imper­son­at­ed A‑list lit­er­ary agents to steal
    man­u­scripts from best-sell­ing authors. The case is ongo­ing, but the
    author­i­ties still haven’t deter­mined a motive.
     
    �       In Feb­ru­ary 2021, Tim­o­thy Wilks was shot and killed when he pulled
    a knife on David Starnes in Nashville, Ten­nessee as part of a YouTube
    rob­bery “prank.” Wilks became nei­ther famous nor wealthy.
     
    �       A man named Hubert Chang claims he was one of Google’s orig­i­nal
    design­ers. So far, acknowl­edged founders Sergey Brin and Lar­ry Page
    aren’t say­ing much.
     
    �            An ele­men­tary school teacher named John Mark Karr became
    famous in 2006 when he con­fessed to mur­der­ing tod­dler mod­el
    Jon­Benet Ram­sey in 1996. The con­fes­sion was proven to be false,
    like­ly done by Karr to become famous.
     
    �            The Apple com­put­er com­pa­ny was found­ed in 1976 by Steve Jobs,
    Steve Woz­ni­ak, and Ronald Wayne. Wayne is often for­got­ten because
    he sold his share of 10% a few weeks lat­er for $2,300.
     
    �            Career crim­i­nal Sante Kimes and her son Ken­neth Kimes Jr. often
    imper­son­at­ed oth­er peo­ple in fraud schemes. Sante often claimed to
    be Eliz­a­beth Tay­lor, although she didn’t look much like her.
     
    �            Thomas Dewey had a suc­cess­ful career as a fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor and
    gov­er­nor of New York from 1943 to 1954, but he’s best known for
    los­ing the 1948 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion to Har­ry Tru­man.
     
    �            Teen broth­ers Robert and Michael Bev­er stabbed and beat to death
    five mem­bers of their fam­i­ly in Bro­ken Arrow, Okla­homa on July 22-
    23, 2015. Two mem­bers of the fam­i­ly, a 2‑year-old girl and a 13-year-
    old girl sur­vived, the lat­ter of whom iden­ti­fied two of her old­er
    broth­ers, 18-year-old Robert Bev­er and 16-year-old Michael Bev­er, as
    the assailants. The motive for their hor­rif­ic crimes was fame.
     
    �            The Amer­i­can TV com­e­dy skit show, Turn-On, only broad­cast one
    com­plete episode in many mar­kets on Feb­ru­ary 5, 1969, with the
    sec­ond episode canned. Today, it’s dif­fi­cult to find the com­plete first
    episode.
     
    �            In 1982 a pet­ty crim­i­nal named Michael Fagan snuck into the
    Queen’s bed­room in Buck­ing­ham Palace. Fagan’s feat was quick­ly
    for­got­ten by the press.
     
    �            Every­one knows who Mark Zucker­berg is, but twins Cameron and
    Tyler Win­klevoss are far less famous. The for­mer Olympic row­ers are
    best known for accus­ing Mark Zucker­berg of steal­ing their idea for a
    social net­work. They used some of their $65 mil­lion legal set­tle­ment
    with the Face­book CEO to start stock­pil­ing Bit­coin. The twins still
    own an esti­mat­ed 70,000 Bit­coins, in addi­tion to oth­er dig­i­tal assets.
     
    �       The 17th US Pres­i­dent, Andrew John­son, was impeached in 1868 but
    staved off con­vic­tion by one vote. If he had been con­vict­ed, the
    pres­i­den­cy would’ve passed to Ben­jamin Wade.
     
    �       Per­son­al train­er Greg Ander­son almost became famous for pro­vid­ing
    steroids to MLB play­er Bar­ry Bonds. On July 15, 2005, Ander­son, in
    a deal with fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tors, plead­ed guilty to con­spir­a­cy to
    dis­trib­ute steroids and to mon­ey laun­der­ing. On Octo­ber 18, 2005, he
    was sen­tenced by U.S. Dis­trict Court Judge Susan Ill­ston to three
    months in prison and three months’ home con­fine­ment.
     
    �       In 2011, a Geor­gia con­ve­nience store sold a Power­ball lot­tery tick­et
    worth $77 mil­lion. No one ever came for­ward to claim the prize.

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