SOME CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO MADE HISTORY
Charles Dickens used to sleep facing north. He thought this would help him write better.
The three best-known Western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley.
Julius Caesar carried a laurel on his head to cover the beginnings of baldness.
The house where Jefferson wrote the declaration of Independence from the United States was replaced by a hamburger place.
The inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel, did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence; and as a way to amend this, he laid in his will the foundations of what we know today as the Nobel Prizes.
Mao Zedong, the first supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party, held the position of Assistant Librarian at Peking University before coming to power in China.
During the First World War, the future Pope John XXIII was a sergeant in the Italian army.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel, but he declined saying he had no head for problems.
When Albert Einstein died he said a few last words, unfortunately the nurse next to him did not understand German.
Catherine I of Russia made a law prohibiting a man from getting drunk before nine o'clock at his parties.
During the reign of Elizabeth I of England, a tax was issued to tax men who wore beards.
One of the gifts Queen Victoria received in her marriage was a cheese 3 meters in diameter and half a ton of weight.
Sir Isaac Newton was deeply obsessed with the occult and the supernatural.
Marie Curie, who twice won the Nobel Prize, and discovered the radio element, could not be accepted as a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman.
John D. Rockefeller donated more than $500 million during his lifetime.
John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, has a coin phone in his mansion.
Sir Winston Churchill 'limited' himself to smoking only 15 cigars a day.
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee'. To which he replied ... If you were my wife, I would drink it!'.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte himself.
George Washington's birthday is the only official birthday celebration in the United States.
While studying at Harvard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on the Spanish exam.
King Solomon of Israel had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
Queen Anne of England (1665-1714) survived all her 17 children.
In 1944, the young Fidel Castro was chosen as the best school athlete in Cuba.
Wolgang Amadeus Mozart never went to school.
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Charles Dickens used to sleep facing north. He thought this would help him write better.
The three best-known Western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley.
Julius Caesar carried a laurel on his head to cover the beginnings of baldness.
The house where Jefferson wrote the declaration of Independence from the United States was replaced by a hamburger place.
The inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel, did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence; and as a way to amend this, he laid in his will the foundations of what we know today as the Nobel Prizes.
Mao Zedong, the first supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party, held the position of Assistant Librarian at Peking University before coming to power in China.
During the First World War, the future Pope John XXIII was a sergeant in the Italian army.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel, but he declined saying he had no head for problems.
When Albert Einstein died he said a few last words, unfortunately the nurse next to him did not understand German.
Catherine I of Russia made a law prohibiting a man from getting drunk before nine o'clock at his parties.
During the reign of Elizabeth I of England, a tax was issued to tax men who wore beards.
One of the gifts Queen Victoria received in her marriage was a cheese 3 meters in diameter and half a ton of weight.
Sir Isaac Newton was deeply obsessed with the occult and the supernatural.
Marie Curie, who twice won the Nobel Prize, and discovered the radio element, could not be accepted as a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman.
John D. Rockefeller donated more than $500 million during his lifetime.
John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, has a coin phone in his mansion.
Sir Winston Churchill 'limited' himself to smoking only 15 cigars a day.
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee'. To which he replied ... If you were my wife, I would drink it!'.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte himself.
George Washington's birthday is the only official birthday celebration in the United States.
While studying at Harvard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on the Spanish exam.
King Solomon of Israel had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
Queen Anne of England (1665-1714) survived all her 17 children.
In 1944, the young Fidel Castro was chosen as the best school athlete in Cuba.
Wolgang Amadeus Mozart never went to school.
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