Coco Chanel’s father was a traveling salesman. After her mother died when she was about 11, he left Coco and her sisters at a convent orphanage and did not come back to raise them.
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Abraham Lincoln often worked until 2 or 3 in the morning, making him one of the most notable “night-owl” presidents in U.S. history.
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Vincent van Gogh sometimes used a flat ‘carpenter’s pencil’ so he could press hard and draw thick lines in his sketches.
Mae Jemison worked as a general practice doctor in Los Angeles before joining NASA.
Barack Obama was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, Japan.