1. Thomas Edison
At age seven - after spending 12 weeks in a one room schoolhouse with 39 other students of all ages - Tom's overworked short tempered teacher lost his patience with the child's persistent questioning and relatively self centered behavior. ... Most interestingly, because this paper was the first ever to be typeset, printed, and sold on a train, an English journal gave him his first international notoriety when it featured a story on it in 1860. ... After his usually tolerant mother complained about the danger of all the "poisons" he was amassing, he transferred some of them to a l...
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