In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
Crayola is literally "oily chalk."
Martin Luther King Jr. had a C in public speaking.
Stephen Hawking is 73 years old and has outlived his shortened life expectancy due to ALS by over 50 years.