Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Robert Browning's dad was set to inherit a family fortune. When he was sent to work on a family sugar plantation in the West Indies, though, he was so opposed to the slavery he saw there that he gave up the money entirely—good for him. (Source)
Browning was so inspired by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley that he became a vegetarian and an atheist, just like Shelley was. (Source)
One of the poems Browning is most famous for is the children's poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." (Source)