True or False?

There’s a persistent belief that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by someone else – the Earl of Oxford, Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe being the top candidates. This questioning of authorship is mostly due to the bias of 19th century scholars who couldn’t accept that such brilliant literature was written by a mere commoner.

‘Typhoid Mary’ was a real person who immigrated to the United States in the 1880s! Mary Mallon worked as a cook and carried the bacteria in her blood. She didn’t feel sick and insisted on working, passing the illness on to at least 51 people before she was isolated in enforced quarantine for the remaining decades of her life!

After Minecraft became a worldwide phenomenon, Microsoft expressed some serious interest in the game. They eventually settled on a deal with Mojang AB and the rights for the game, buying up the whole lot for an unbelievable $2.5 billion. Notch then left the company with more money than we can comprehend, outbidding Beyoncé and Jay-Z for the most expensive Hollywood Manor of all time.