historical-nonfiction:

Sir Isaac Newton was an interesting guy. Here’s only a few of the reasons why

• He was born on Christmas Day, 1642
• His mother thought education wasn’t necessary to become a farmer (what she had planned him to become) so she made him quit school
• A special ruling by the Crown (the monarch was head of the Church of England and Cambridge was a church school) was necessary before Newton could become Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. The ruling: Newton did not have to become a church member to teach at Cambridge. He delivered about eight lectures a year; they were apparently not very good.
• He most likely died of mercury poisoning