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He served as an altar boy.
His paternal grandparents were Jewish but kept that a secret and raised their children Catholic.
Through his paternal grandmother, he is related to the famed 16th century Talmudist and Kabbalist Rabbi Judah Loew, "the Maharal of Prague."
His mother, Rosemary Forbes, is a member of the wealthy Forbes family. (That's right, like father just like son, marrying rich girls.)
His maternal grandfather was born in China.
Some of the Forbes fortune came from opium smuggling in China, great grandfather Forbes being a poppy botanist and opium dealer.
His first cousin Brice Lalonde is a French socialist, environmentalist activist, and Green Party politician who ran for President of France, and is mayor of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer near the Forbes family estate.
His father graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School.
His mother served in the Red Cross in Paris during World War II.
Through his maternal grandmother he is related to John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The family estate, Les Essarts, in Saint-Briac, France was occupied and used as a Nazi headquarters during World War II. When the Germans fled they burned it down.
After it was rebuilt, the Kerry's would often summer in Les Essarts.
He attended a Swiss boarding school.
As a boy he would sneak into East Berlin.
He played on a lacrosse team captained by future FBI director Robert S. Mueller III,
He played electric bass on a 1961 album. (A copy of which was auctioned off on eBay earlier this year for $2,551.)
He worked on Teddy Kennedy's first senate run.
He dated Jackie Kennedy's half-sister.
He went yachting with President John Kennedy.
While still a student at Yale in 1965, he won the Ten Eyck prize as the best orator in the junior class for a speech that was critical of U.S. foreign policy, saying, "It is the specter of Western imperialism that causes more fear among Africans and Asians than communism, and thus it is self-defeating."
His graduation speech was a broad criticism of American foreign policy, including the Vietnam War.
He still has shrapnel in his left thigh from the wound that earned him his second Purple Heart.
He attempted to run for office in 1970, even before his testimony before Congress, but came in second in a caucus to determine a single antiwar candidate.
He once opened a small cookie and muffin shop in Boston's Quincy Market area.
He was Lieutenant Governor to failed presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.
He was responsible for the report which exposed Lt. Col. Oliver North's activities and led to the Iran-Contra scandal.
He dated actresses Morgan Fairchild and Catherine Oxenberg.
He is the beneficiary of at least four trusts inherited from Forbes family members.
His combined family net worth is estimated to be at least one billion dollars, making him the richest candidate in this year's election.
He's related to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (4th cousin twice removed) and President Calvin Coolidge (8th cousin once removed).
He and George W. Bush are cousins (9th cousin, twice removed).