Tuesdays Ten "Interesting" Facts 8

1. At 18 William Shakespeare married 26 year old Anne Hathaway, their first child was born 6 months later.
2. Actress Anne Hathaway wanted to be a nun until the age of 15, at which point her brother came out as being gay. She could no longer be part of a religion that would condemn her brother.
3. Sir Isaac Newton refused a Sacrement on his deathbed, most scholars believe this to be sign of his conjectured Antitrinitarian beliefs.
4. Fermat's Last Theorem remained unsolved for almost 350 years, following the "loss"* of Fermat's original proof.
5. Lord of the Rings Author J. R. R. Tolkien as a child was bitten by a baboon spider. Although he stated he could not remember the incident many point to this as the source of his famous arachnid monster shelob...
6. ....Also as a baby he was once taken by the house boy to his kraal (homestead), he was only returned the following day.
7. Tolkien's friend and contemporary C S Lewis author of the Lion the which and wardrobe. was injured during world war 1. When an english shell fell short and landed on his trench in the Somme Valley.
8. Harry Houdini was part of a special scientific comitee, that offerd a cash prize for any medium that could demonstrate supernatural abilities. His magic training allowed him to expose the tricks used by those that attempted to claim the prize which was never collected.
9. Arthur Conan Doyle author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was a good friend of Houdini's. their friendship ended after a public falling out over Doyle's inability to accept that Houdini's feats where illusions with Doyle convinced that he had supernatural powers.
10. As a child, Actor Sean Bean smashed a glass door due to an argument over scissors, he ended up with a large glass shard in his leg. This lead to an end of his dream to pay professional football.**

* No one ever saw the proof it was alluded to in the margin of a text book. Fermat's wrote that he had "discovered a truly marvelous proof of this." but this proof was never seen.
**My mum always said i'd lose an eye playing with scissors, glass shards in the leg would have worked loads better.