Seeking a better way to feed his troops, Napoleon launched a contest that changed the way people eat to this day Lifestyle Battlefields Strangeness
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After finding fame as Dracula, Bela Lugosi turned down the chance to play Frankenstein’s Monster, a role that went to little-known Boris Karloff Strangeness