Portal:Biography/Did you know/11


 * ... that combat medic David B. Bleak (pictured) was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War after killing five Chinese soldiers, four using only his hands?
 * ... that Indonesian writer Clara Ng was reportedly able to read The Adventures of Tintin by kindergarten?
 * ... that Elmer Stricklett is considered to have been the first baseball pitcher to master the spitball?
 * ... that U.S. Air Force weather officer J. Murray Mitchell investigated the Arctic haze and became an eminent climatologist commemorated by the Mitchell Glacier?
 * ... that Alexis Bachelot, who led the first Catholic mission to Hawaii, was suspected of being a covert agent of the French government by some Hawaiian chiefs?
 * ... that Olympic athlete Arthur Keily ran over 130 mi a week to train for marathons?
 * ... that after the death of François de Pâris in 1727, many people reported miracle cures through convulsions by consuming the earth around his grave?