Fact 1
Francis Galton was born on February 16, 1822 in Sparkbrook, England.
Fact 2
He studied to become a doctor but abandoned this idea and went on to study mathematics at Cambridge University 1810 but never graduated.
Fact 3
In the mid-1840s, Galton made his first trip to the Middle East and Africa. He made several trips to Africa and published “Tropical South Africa” in 1853.
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