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Interesting facts about George Bernard Shaw

• George Bernard Shaw was a vegetarian yet a staunch vivisectionist [using animals for research purposes]
• Shaw is perhaps the only recipient of both the Nobel Prize and the Academy Award.
• He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
• Shaw won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Pygmalion [Screen Name of film – My Fair Lady] in the year 1938.
• Shaw was very fond of riding motorcycles
• Shaw‘s prefaces to his plays were extremely lengthy, where he expounded his political views. At times the preface was much longer than the play itself.
• Shaw’s picture appeared on the cover of the Beatles’ Album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Shaw was active till the end and died at the age of 94 due to injuries he sustained after falling off a ladder in his garden.
• Shaw was not buried but cremated and his ashes scattered all over his estate.