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The earliest record, a 1910 biography, has Edison telling associate Walter S. Mallory he knew "several thousand things that won't work" after a decade-long battery hunt.
A California collector's junk-shop find was authenticated by Kagin's in 2015. The only undisputed photo of the outlaw sold for $2.3 million in 2011, nearly six times its estimate.
Speaking in Washington on 14 November 1957, Eisenhower said he had heard the maxim "long ago in the Army". His point was that an emergency never arrives the way you planned for it.
Margaret Thatcher, born on 13 October 1925, told the 1980 Conservative conference she would not U-turn. The line came from playwright Ronald Millar, punning on a Christopher Fry comedy.
USS Silversides, one of the war's most decorated subs, has spent the summer on blocks in Wisconsin. Crews found steel nobody had seen since 1954.
Two of her most-shared quotes can't be found in her writing. This one can, and the story behind it is better than the poster version.
The line about dogs, cats and pigs is shared everywhere. Churchill's own private secretary remembered a shorter, sharper version.
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