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Che Guevara's paternal grandparents were both born in the U.S. His great-grandparents had gone to California for the Gold Rush.

Nowadays, 20% of third-grade boys and 18% of third-grade girls have a cell phone, according to a 2011 Massachusetts study. Thirty-nine percent of fifth graders have cell phones and more than 83% of middle school students have one.

What did poet W.H. Auden and writers Robert Louis Stevenson and Graham Greene have in common? They were Benzedrine addicts.

In 2014, parts of the remains of the late Gene Roddenberry, his wife Majel Barrett Roddenberry, and James Doohan (who played Mr. Scott on the original Star Trek series) will be put on a rocket ship called Voyager and sent into deep space. Another portion of Roddenberry's remains traveled on a orbital rocket ship with the remains of Timothy Leary on April 21, 1997.

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