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Louis Zamperini (1917-2014)
Hitler shook hands with this Olympic athlete.
He was adrift in the ocean for 47 days after plane went down.
Captured and tortured by the Japanese.
The first United States patent for an improvement in a finger-nail clipper was filed in 1875 by Valentine Fogerty and in the United Kingdom by Hungarian inventor David Gestetner.
Milton Hershey of The Hershey Company, started off selling caramels for the Lancaster Caramel Company. He and his wife booked to travel on the Titanic but canceled their reservations at the last minute due to business matters. A copy of the check Hershey wrote to the White Star Line as a deposit for a first-class stateroom on the Titanic is located in the archives of the Hershey Story Museum.
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