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1. Winston Churchill’s father encouraged him to be a soldier, thinking him “too stupid” to be this.

 
 
 
 

2. This classic novel only sold 3,000 copies from 1851 to 1891.

 
 
 
 

3. To win the Pour le Mérite (the Blue Max), Germany’s highest award for valor during World War I a pilot had to shoot down this many enemy planes.