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In 1976, William Bradford Bishop murdered his wife, 3 kids & mother with a sledgehammer and then disappeared. Placed on the FBI most wanted list in 2014, there have been credible sightings of him in Sweden, Italy & Switzerland. A former soldier & State Department employee, he speaks 5 languages.

Dr. Seuss cheated on his wife while she had cancer. His wife killed herself after finding out about the affair. Dr. Seuss later married his mistress.

Prince wrote The Bangles 1986 hit single, ‘Manic Monday’ using a pseudonym.

In 1945, Army photography David Conover saw a young woman on the Radioplane assembly line whom he thought had potential to a model. He photographed her working on the OQ-3 model, which led to a screen test for the woman, who soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.

The use of bowls to house goldfish comes from a misunderstanding of Chinese display vessels. These were small, temporary containers that were used to display goldfish to guests. The goldfishes were otherwise housed in ponds. Fishbowls are so detrimental to goldfish's health that they are prohibited by cities like Rome on the grounds of animal cruelty.

Despite the widespread success of his song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," Solomon Linda never received a cent of its royalties and died poor in 1962. He didn't even get a gravestone until 18 years after his death.

In 1899, Denver journalists wrote a fake story that China was tearing down the Great Wall. To their surprise, it was picked up by a major newspaper with "confirmation" from officials and illustrations of the wall being torn down. The hoax spread across the U.S. and Europe without being debunked.

The first successful C-section birth in which both mother and child survive was completed in 1826 by a woman named Margaret Ann Bulky who used a male surgeon alias (James Barry) to conduct the surgery. She was only discovered to be a woman postmortem.

Keanu Reeves was the last choice for the role of "Neo" from The Matrix. Brad Pitt was first to accept before declining. Leonardo DiCaprio later accepted before declining. Others considered were Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Sandra Bullock, Johnny Depp, Kevin Costner, David Duchovny, and Tom Cruise.

There is a gypsy tribe named Satiyaa Community in India that celebrates death as one of the happiest events in their lives while treating births as occasions of great grief.