# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

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**Created:** [April 13, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674 "2020-04-13T03:19:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/789 "2020-09-23T06:30:39Z")

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Michael Crichton, who got an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and wrote hard-SF thrillers like _The Andromeda Strain_ and _Jurassic Park_, was a serious believer in all kinds of woo and occult stuff and frequently hung out with psychics.

As another Doper recently noted, [he was also quite tall](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-heights-surprise-you/917732/60).

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