1. In the West the most popular male names are James and John. The most popular female name is Mary.
2. The name Wendy was first used in JM Barrie’s Peter Pan.
3. There are about 5,000 prince and princesses in each Saudi Arabian royal.
4. Merit-Ptah (2700 BC) of Ancient Egypt  is the world’s first known female physician.
5. The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.
6. Adriaan van der Donck was the first and only lawyer in New York City in 1653.
7. A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.
8. The British royal family changed their surname (last name) from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor, the name of their castle, in 1917.
9. Before writing 007 novels, Ian Fleming studied languages at Munich and Geneva universities, worked with Reuters in Moscow, and then became a banker and stockbroker.
10. Julius Caesar was known as a great swimmer.
11. When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.
12. The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.
13. Orville Wright numbered the eggs that his chickens produced so he could eat them in the order they were laid.
14. On New Year’s Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513 people.
15. The oldest person on record is Methuselah (969 years old).
16. An exocannibal eats only enemies. An indocannibal eats only friends.
17. Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.
18. Burt Reynold’s father was the chief of police in West Palm Beach, Florida.
19. On 5th October 1974, four years, three months and sixteen days after Dave Kunste set out from Minnesota, he became the first man to walk around the world, having taken more than 20 million steps.
20. English sailors came to be called Limeys after using lime juice to combat scurvy.
21. English soldiers were called Tommies because the example name on the soldier forms was Thomas Atkins. (The example name on US forms is John Smith.)
22. The word “Machiavellian” is named after Niccolo Machiavelli, who was friends with Leonardo da Vinci.
23. The US has the highest documented per capita rate of imprisonment of any country in the world. About 2% of white males, 4% of Hispanic males and 10% of black males are incarcerated. There are more black males in prison than in colleges in the US.
24. Queen Isabella of Castile, who dispatched Christopher Columbus to find the Americas, boasted that she had only two baths in her life – at her birth and before she got married.
25. Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
26. Until he was 18, Woody Allen read virtually nothing but comic books but did show his writing skills. He sold one-liners for ten cents each to gossip columnists.
27. In the 18th century Dr Monsey of Chelsea, England tied a piece of catgut around a patient’s tooth, threaded the other through a hole drilled in a bullet, loaded the bullet into his revolver and pulled the trigger.
28. Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that he was US President.
29. Winston Churchill was a stutterer. As a child, one of his teachers warned, “Because of his stuttering he should be discouraged from following in his father’s political footsteps.”
30. The 17th-century French Cardinal Mazarin never traveled without his personal chocolate-maker.
31. King Louis XIV of France established in his court the position of “Royal Chocolate Maker to the King.”
32. Napoleon reportedly carried chocolate on all his military campaigns.
33. The word “electric” was first used in 1600 by William Gilbert, a doctor to Queen Elizabeth I.
34. In 1973, Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.

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• King Solomon of Israel had about 700 wives as well as hundreds of mistresses.
•  Charles the Simple was the grandson of Charles the Bald, both were rulers of France.
• Englands Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all 17 of her children.  
•  In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba’s best schoolboy athlete.
• Mozart never went to school.

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When Einstein was five years old his father gave him a pocket compass. It was this compass that sparked Einstein’s interest in science. The fact that the compass pointed in the same direction no matter how it was turned made him curious about understanding the force behind it.

In 1895 when Albert Einstein appeared for the University Entrance Exam he could only manage to pass in the math and science sections and failed in the rest of the subjects.  

Albert Einstein could not find work after he graduated from the college and initially had to work as a technical assistant with the Swiss Patent Office. Between the year 1911 and 1912 he taught at a German speaking University in the city of Prague after which he returned to Zurich. In the year 1914 he started working as a professor at the University of Berlin and was also made the director in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics.

Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for his work in the area of Photoelectric Effect in the year 1921. Einstein was not present to receive his Nobel Prize in December 1922 because he was on a trip to Japan.

In the year 1933 he started teaching at the Princeton University. In the year 1939 he wrote to President Roosevelt and pointed out the possibility of construction of a powerful bomb using atomic chain reactions in Uranium and he also suggested that Germany might be working on such a creation.

Einstein was offered the Presidency of Israel in 1952 but declined it. An element named einsteinium was discovered in 1952 and named in his honor.

Albert Einstein had an illegitimate child with Mileva Maric who was one of his former students. His daughter was named Lieserl and was born in 1902 and not much is known about his daughter. Some accounts indicate that his daughter was mentally challenged and lived with her mother’s family. Einstein eventually married Mileva and he had two sons Hans Albert and Eduard. However his relationship with his wife was largely strained. His relationship with his elder son Hans Albert was also quite rocky. Eventually Einstein divorced Mileva and married his cousin Elsa Lowenthal. He had numerous affairs with many women during his lifetime.

Albert Einstein was also not particularly concerned about being well dressed. He also stopped wearing socks because he found his big toe would make a hole in the sock. His favorite past time was sailing. Einstein also loved going for walks around the town and that was one of his favorite activities. He also loved music and used to play the violin.

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• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
• Albert Einstein was born on 14th March, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. When Albert Einstein was a child his mother actually thought he was deformed because he had rather large head. As a child Einstein spoke very little till the age of nine. Albert Einstein had a younger sister named Maja  who he became good friends with in the later years of his life.

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•  Albert Einstein  was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.
• When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.
• After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955 his brain was removed without approval from his family and an autopsy was conducted. Thomas Harvey conducted this autopsy and eventually it was discovered that Einstein’s brain had large portion of glial cells in the region that synthesizes information. Other studies also indicated that Einstein’s brain did not have a particular kind of wrinkle and this allowed the neurons to communicate better with each other. At the time of his death, Albert Einstein’s final words died with him as they were in German and his nurse did not understand German.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
• Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

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