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Sloths may be the only mammals that don’t fart.

Shirley Temple reportedly didn't love her famous curls; she preferred the cropped hairstyle of her hero Amelia Earhart.

Alice in Wonderland was once banned in parts of China. “Bears, lions, and other beasts cannot use human language,” said the Governor of the Hunan Province in 1931. “To attribute to them such a power is an insult to the human race.”

A solar eclipse helped end a six-year war in 585 BCE. When the sky suddenly darkened during a battle between the Lydians and the Medes in modern Turkey, soldiers took it as a sign to cease fighting.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's full name is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was named after his distant relative Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner."