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Michelle Obama, the first lady of Barack Obama, said that opening the windows was one of the things she missed most about living outside the White House. She told Ellen Degeneres that she would spend her first years off of the grounds “just hanging out the window.”

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  • Charlie Chaplin enrolled in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike competition and he came 20th in rank.
  • Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna held an entire state funeral for his leg after it was amputated.
  • Civil War General Joseph Hooker brought prostitutes along to keep his soldiers satisfied. His name is now synonymous with the profession.
  • Cleopatra was fluent in 9 languages. They were Ancient Greek, Ancient Iranian, Ancient Parthian, Syriac, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Arabic and Troglodyte.
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