- Handel wrote the score of his Messiah in just over 3 weeks.
- Hans Christian Andersen, Cher, Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein, Whoopie Goldberg, Greg Louganis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Gen. George S. Patton, are (were) all dyslexics.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published March 20, 1852. It was the first American novel to sell one million copies.
- Harry Drake fired an arrow 1871.8 metres, from a crossbow, on 30 July 1988
- Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
- Hawaii officially became a part of the US on June 14, 1900.
- Hawaii's Mt Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains about ninety per cent of the time, about 480 inches per annum.
- Henry VII was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battle
- Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marring a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
- Hindus don't like dying in bed, they prefer to die beside a river.
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