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 The Question:
What is so unusual about P.T. Barnum's obituary?
The Answer:
What is most interesting about the obituary of the famous
showman P.T. Barnum is
that he got to read it. Here's how the Ringling
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Web site recounts the
story:
Several weeks before he died in his sleep, on April 7, 1891,
Barnum read his own obituary: The New York Sun newspaper, responding
to Barnum's comment that the press says nice things about people
after they die, ran his obituary on the front page with the
headline, “Great And Only Barnum—He Wanted To Read His
Obituary—Here It Is.”
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