Random Fact Generator - 071509

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  From the mental_floss archives
  
  
  
  Grace Kelly's father had to cough up a $2 million dowry to help cover the cost of his daughter's wedding to Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
  
  W.E.B. DuBois was the only African American on the NAACP's first board of directors.
  
  
  In the 1950s, Dr. Joyce Brothers won big money on 'The $64,000 Question' (and more on 'The $64,000 Challenge') by knowing lots about boxing.
  
  
  King's Cross station is where you catch the Hogwarts Express. The station holds special meaning for Rowling: it's where her parents met.
  
  
  Sega started in Hawaii in 1940 as Standard Games, a business that provided military bases with pinball machines to help amuse soldiers.
  
  
  Martin Scorsese directed Michael Jackson's "Bad" video. He is also one of 50 people officially barred from Tibet by the Chinese government.
  
  
  The Hippocratic Oath's line, "First do no harm," actually originally comes from the oath Pythagoras's followers took to join his sect.
  
  
  Sacramento Kings forward Lionel Simmons missed two games in 1991 because he had tendonitis in his right arm from playing too much GameBoy.