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NXM4Q TIL Sherlock Holmes was inspired by a real person, Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes at least in part on Dr. Joseph Bell, a surgeon and professor at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Surgeons.
R5nb6 TIL that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) took a single wicket during his brief first class Cricket career - that of the famed W. G. Grace - and he was so elated at the achievement that he wrote a poem about it.
yQn7w TIL That Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was actually quite pro-American and wrote a letter in 1896 advocating for a formal US-UK alliance.