These facts will make you look at these stars with different eyes.
1. Singer Kesha’s IQ is 140, and she scored 1500 out of 1600 points in her final school exams.
2. The real name of the famous American TV presenter Oprah Winfrey is Orpah.
3. Marilyn Manson's real name is Brian.
4. Leonardo DiCaprio's mother chose this name for her son when, while pregnant with him, he pushed just at the moment when she was looking at a painting by Leonardo da Vinci in an Italian museum.
5. Tim Allen ("Santa Claus", "Shaggy Daddy") was arrested in 1978 for possession of 0.6 kg of cocaine and was sentenced to two years in prison.
6. Justin Timberlake's mom was Ryan Gosling's legal guardian when they were on The Mickey Mouse Club. 
7. Actor Jerry Springer (“Love and Secrets of Sunset Beach,” “Four Funerals and a Wedding”) was the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.
8. While living in New York, young Steve Buscemi worked for a time as a firefighter.
9. When Madonna moved to New York, she worked at Dunkin' Donuts. She was fired for accidentally getting jelly on a client.
10. Christopher Walken traveled with the circus and was a lion tamer at the age of 15.
11. Sylvester Stallone's first film was a porno called The Italian Stallion.
12. Sean Connery wore a small wig in all of the James Bond films.
13. Chuck Norris's real name is Carlos.
14. Elvis Presley was actually blond. He started dying his hair black in high school.
15. Johnny Depp suffers from coulrophobia (fear of clowns).
16. Nicolas Cage's middle name is Kim.
17. Singer Alanis Morissette has a twin brother named Wade.
18. Ashton Kutcher also has a twin brother, his name is Michael.
19. And Scarlett Johansson has another twin. She is 3 minutes older than her brother Hunter Johansson.
20. American actor Martin Lawrence (“Bad Boys,” “The Diamond Cop”) was born in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
22. Bruno Mars' real name is Peter Gene Hernandez.
24. Ashton Kutcher's real name is Christopher.
25. Singer Brandy was a participant in an accident that resulted in the death of a person. Brandy didn't have time to brake in time.
26. Laura Bush, wife of the 43rd US President George W. Bush, was also involved in a fatal accident.
27. Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew.
28. Anne Hathaway wanted to become a nun.
29. Ruth Westheimer, an American television and radio host, better known as Dr. Ruth, is from Israel and has skills as a sniper.
30. Singers Adele and Taylor Swift are almost the same age. Adele is 28, and Taylor Swift is almost 27.
31.American musician and singer R. Kelly cannot read or write.
32. Ryan Gosling could become a member of the Backstreet Boys, he was offered a place in the group.
33. Mark Wahlberg spent 45 days in prison for beating a Vietnamese man.
34. Martin Luther King Jr. was an ardent fan of the Star Trek franchise. The actress who plays Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, decided to continue participating in the filming of Star Trek after meeting him.
35. David Bowie suffered an injury to his left eye after a fight when he was 15. The pupil of the injured eye became wider, giving the appearance of a different eye color for David.
36. Steve Jobs loved to relieve stress by washing his feet in the Apple restrooms.
37. When Bill Murray was 20 years old, he was arrested at the Chicago airport for trying to carry about 4.5 kg of marijuana on a plane.
38. American writer and television presenter, famous for her advice on home economics, Martha Stewart, worked as a model.
39. Nicolas Cage once bought himself an octopus, believing that it would help him better transform into roles.
41. Joaquin Phoenix was raised in a cult. Until 1978, Joaquin's parents raised him and his brothers and sisters in the Children of God sect.
42. Tom Cruise inspired Christian Bale to create the image of the main character in the film “American Psycho”.
43. American actress Leighton Meester was born in prison. During this period, her mother was serving time for drug smuggling.
44. Leonardo DiCaprio has a turtle, Sulcata, weighing about 17 kg. Leonardo bought it at an auction of North American breeders in 2010. Its lifespan can be up to 80 years.
45. Jim Carrey dropped out of school when he was 16 and started working as a doorman.
47. Nicolas Cage ate magic mushrooms with his cat.
48. Also, Nicolas Cage was once harassed by a strange mime. “I was being chased by some crazy mime. One day he snuck onto the set of Raising the Dead and started doing strange things there.”
49. In 1999, Jennifer Lawrence looked almost the same as Justin Timberlake.
50. Tim Curry (Charlie's Angels, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, It) voiced Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys.
51. Jackie Chan starred in a porn film.
52. JK Rowling was fired from her secretary position because she constantly had her head in the clouds. After that, she wrote her famous story about the boy wizard Harry Potter.
53. Dennis Rodman (Soldiers of Fortune, Babes) has 28 siblings.
54. American writer, screenwriter and TV presenter James Lipton was once a pimp in Paris.
55. Natalie Portman has published her work twice in scientific journals.
56. Tom Hanks is a fourth generation distant relative of Abraham Lincoln.
57. The star of the films “It's Stupid Love” and “Welcome to Zombieland” Emma Stone is actually a blonde, not a redhead.
58. Christina Hendricks, best known for her role in the movie Substitute Teacher, is also blonde.
59. Once upon a time, Tom Hanks enrolled in a seminary school to become a priest.
60. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Samuel L. Jackson attended the funeral in Atlanta as one of the ushers. Afterwards, he flew to Memphis to participate in a protest march. In 1969, Jackson and a number of other students held Morehouse College board members on campus to demand reform of the school's curriculum and governance.
61. American basketball player Kobe Bryant speaks excellent Italian.
62. Alanis Morissette and Ryan Reynolds dated from 2002 to 2007.
63. Rob Lowe, known for the TV series Californication and Parks and Recreation, is deaf in his right ear. This may have been caused by a viral disease that Rob suffered as an infant.
64. Matthew Perry lost part of the middle finger on his right hand due to an accident with a door.
65. Matthew McConaughey is afraid of revolving doors.
66. Tyra Banks is afraid of dolphins.
67. Comedian Louis C.K. is a citizen of Mexico.
68. Before becoming a successful actor, Jeremy Renner worked as a makeup artist.
69. American actor Al Roker and musician Lenny Kravitz are second cousins.
70. Megan Fox suffers from brachydactyly, which causes her thumbs to grow slower than the rest and her nails to look underdeveloped.
The Russian prince Svyatoslav, who ruled in Kyiv, had three sons - Yaropolk, Oleg and Vladimir. Immediately after the death of Svyatoslav, the brothers went to war against each other, each wanted to rule in Kyiv, to become an autocratic prince. Vladimir showed great foresight in this fight and turned out to be the winner. He converted to Christianity, baptized Rus' and contributed in every possible way to the education of ordinary people.
Prince Ivan III Vasilievich (1440-1505) - Uniter of Russian lands
The Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily II, nicknamed the Dark One, during his lifetime involved his son Ivan in managing the affairs of the state. Thus, he confirmed his legal rights to succession to the throne. All business papers were signed by both of them. Ivan assumed full rights after the death of his father, when he was 22 years old. Ivan III began to unite the Russian lands around Moscow, turning it into the capital of the all-Russian state. Under him, the Principality of Moscow got rid of the Mongol-Tatar yoke. He knew how to listen carefully to the advice of his boyars. In adulthood, Prince Ivan 3 did not like to take part in military campaigns, believing that commanders should fight, and the sovereign at home should decide important matters. During the 43 years of his reign, the Moscow principality was freed from the power of the Horde khans, significantly expanded and strengthened. Under him, the code of laws “Code Code” was adopted, and a local system of land ownership appeared.
Peter I (1672-1725) - “What I want must be”
Peter 1 was truly great. Peter had everything great - growth, army, battles, territories, plans. He sought not only to expand the borders of the Russian state, but also to make life in it similar to what he saw in Europe. He learned a lot himself and taught others. However, in his desire to quickly introduce new orders, he often went to extremes; bloody massacres were not uncommon in his time. He was in a hurry in everything, as if he felt that fate had not given him a very long life.
Catherine II (1729-1796) - Enlightened Monarch
On June 28, 1762, a bloodless palace coup took place in St. Petersburg. The wife of Emperor Peter III, Ekaterina Alekseevna, with the help of the guards, removed her husband from power and declared herself an autocratic empress. Once on the Russian throne, Catherine II tried to win the devotion and love of her subjects. She carried out many economic transformations, contributed in every possible way to the development of trade, torture and executions were abolished in Russia, and elected courts appeared. The period of her reign was called the “golden age”, and the empress herself was called the Great.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) - The sun of Russian poetry
Time inexorably moves us away from Pushkin, the poet, playwright, and prose writer, but this makes his creative genius appear more and more clearly. His poems, poems and stories showed different sides of Russian reality, social life and peasant life, they reflected the restless soul of the poet, deep feelings and experiences. His poetry and prose were enthusiastically received by 19th-century readers. It was then that the aura of his greatness was created; he began to be considered the founder of Russian literature, the creator of the modern literary language. It is no coincidence that the time in which he lived is called the “Pushkin era.”
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881) - Surgeon from God
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov worked for hours in the anatomical theater, cutting soft tissues, examining diseased organs, sawing bones, and looking for replacements for damaged joints. Anatomy became a practical school for him, laying the foundation for his further successful surgical activity. Pirogov was the first to come up with the idea of plastic surgery, used anesthesia in military field surgery, was the first to apply a plaster cast in the field, and suggested the existence of pathogenic microorganisms that cause suppuration of wounds. His works and various medical atlases brought Russian surgery to one of the first places in the world.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) - Defender of the poor people
Despite the wide popularity of Fyodor Dostoevsky in Russia, worldwide recognition and interest in his work came after his death. Everyone noted his deep psychologism and passion in depicting the “humiliated and insulted.” The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he learned anything. The works of Fyodor Mikhailovich had a noticeable influence on writers: the Austrian Stefan Zweig, the Frenchman Marcel Proust, the Englishman Oscar Wilde, the Germans Thomas and Heinrich Mann.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) - Preacher of morality
The famous Russian theater director and creator of the acting system, Konstantin Stanislavsky, wrote in his book “My Life in Art” that in the difficult years of the first revolutions, when despair gripped people, many remembered that Leo Tolstoy was living with them at the same time. And my soul became lighter. He was the conscience of humanity. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, Tolstoy became the spokesman for the thoughts and hopes of millions of people. He was a moral support for many. It was read and listened to not only by Russia, but also by Europe, America and Asia.
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) - Legislator in chemistry
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev was a versatile scientist: in the laboratory he studied new properties of materials, in plants and factories he analyzed the results of their use, and at his desk he carefully summarized information. Every year he traveled to various regions of the country and went abroad. The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements he created, a brilliant discovery, established the dependence of various properties of elements on the charge of the atomic nucleus and was accepted throughout the world. The collection of his scientific works consists of 25 volumes.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Composer for all times
Foreign performers of piano music, violinists, cellists and vocalists are well aware of the International Tchaikovsky Music Competition, which is held in Moscow every 4 years. The symphonic works of the Russian composer have long been heard in the concert halls of many leading capitals of the world, his operas and ballets are in the repertoire of the world's outstanding opera houses. Tchaikovsky left behind a huge musical heritage, which has become part of global culture.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) - Teacher of reflex theory
Awarded the title of Nobel Prize laureate in the field of medicine and physiology for 1904, the creator of the science of higher nervous activity, Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov was recognized as the foreman of physiologists around the world.
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945) - Discoverer of the biosphere
Vladimir Vernadsky entered the history of Russian and world science as an outstanding naturalist, thinker, and public figure. He studied such special branches of knowledge about the Earth as geology, crystallography, mineralogy, geochemistry, and biology. And he determined the paths of the general evolution of the Earth, introduced the concepts of “biosphere” and “noosphere” - areas of distribution of life on Earth as a result of the evolutionary impact on it by humans. He was the herald of a new branch of science - ecology.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) (1870-1924) - Practitioner of building communism
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is the most famous political figure of the 20th century. For over 70 years in the Soviet Union, he was considered an unsurpassed genius who set the goal of building communism in Russia. In 1917, Lenin took on the impossible task of making backward agrarian Russia socialist and then communist. He dreamed that workers would receive everything according to their needs. The idea turned out to be untenable. True, after Lenin the country gradually switched to the industrial path of development. Communism was not achieved, but at the cost of enormous efforts, including millions of human casualties, the USSR moved closer to the forefront on the world stage.
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Stalin) (1878 -1953) - Inspirer of all victories
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the head of the Soviet government, Joseph Stalin led the country onto the industrial path of development, with his name the Soviet people won the Great Patriotic War, he caused mass labor heroism, and under him the country became a superpower. But he also imposed a totalitarian, dictatorial regime in the country, carried out forced collectivization, under him famine broke out in the country, mass repressions were carried out, the world community was divided into two camps - socialist and capitalist. In history, Stalin remained a dual personality: the winner of the war and the tyrant of his own people.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1906-1966) - Chief designer
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was an outstanding design engineer who dreamed of conquering space. He made a huge contribution to organizing the production of rocket and space technology and missile weapons in the Soviet Union. He was the first in the world to launch satellites, scientific stations, and spaceships into earth orbit. Reports of this shocked the whole world. He dreamed of exploring the vastness of the Universe with the help of automatic devices and began preparing a flight to Mars, but did not have time to carry out his plans.
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Usually great people differ from the average man in the street, not only in their famous achievements, but also in their character and habits. Among these habits there are many oddities that distinguished many famous personalities. This post contains a selection of oddities of famous people.
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov was one of the most famous Russian commanders. He did not lose a single battle, and all of them were won with the numerical superiority of the enemy. Suvorov was famous for his strange antics: he went to bed at six in the evening, and woke up at two in the morning, and, upon waking up, doused himself with cold water and loudly shouted “ku-ka-re-ku!” Despite all his ranks, he slept on hay. Preferring to wear old boots, he could easily go out to meet high officials in a sleeping cap and underwear. He also gave the signal for the attack to his loved ones “ku-ka-re-ku!”, and, they say, after he was promoted to field marshal, he began jumping over chairs and saying: “And I jumped over this one, and over that one.” That!"
Often famous people were very forgetful and absent-minded. For example, Diderot forgot days, months, years and the names of loved ones. Anatole France sometimes forgot to get a new sheet of paper or notebook and wrote on everything he could get his hands on: envelopes, business cards, wrappers, receipts. But scientists are usually the most absent-minded.
Newton once received guests and, wanting to treat them, went to his office to buy wine. The guests are waiting, but the owner does not return. It turned out that upon entering the workroom, Newton was thinking so deeply about his next work that he completely forgot about his friends. There is also a known case when Newton, having decided to boil an egg, took a watch, noticed the time and after a couple of minutes discovered that he was holding an egg in his hand and was boiling a watch. One day Newton had lunch, but did not notice it. And when he went to dine another time by mistake, he was very surprised that someone ate his food.
Einstein, having met his friend and, absorbed in thoughts, said: Come to me in the evening. I will also have Professor Stimson. His friend, puzzled, objected: But I am Stimson! Einstein replied: It doesn’t matter, come anyway! In addition, Einstein's wife had to repeat the same thing three times before the great physicist understood the meaning of her remarks.
The father of Russian aviation, Zhukovsky, once, after talking the whole evening with friends in his own living room, suddenly got up, looking for his hat, and began to hastily say goodbye, muttering: However, I stayed too long with you, it’s time to go home!
The German historian Theodor Mommsen once rummaged through all his pockets to find glasses. The little girl sitting next to him handed them to him. “Thank you, baby,” Mommsen said, “What’s your name?” “Anna Mommsen, dad,” the girl answered.
One day, Ampere, leaving his apartment, wrote in chalk on his door: Ampere will only be home in the evening. But he returned home in the afternoon. He read the inscription on his door and went back, because he forgot that he himself was Ampere. Another story that was told about Ampere was this. One day, while sitting in a carriage, he wrote the formula with chalk instead of a slate board on the coachman’s back. And I was very surprised when, upon arriving at the place and getting off the crew, I saw that the formula began to be removed along with the crew.
Galileo was no less absent-minded. He spent his wedding night reading a book. Finally noticing that it was already dawn, he went to the bedroom, but immediately came out and asked the servant: “Who is lying in my bed?” “Your wife, sir,” answered the servant. Galileo completely forgot that he got married.
Some great ones never married at all. Now this will not surprise anyone, but a hundred years ago it was considered a great oddity. Voltaire, Dante, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant and Beethoven died as convinced bachelors, believing that a wife would only hinder them from creating, and that a servant would look after the house perfectly.
True, in Beethoven’s house the servants were powerless to maintain any semblance of order: sheets of symphonies and overtures were scattered throughout the office mixed with bottles and plates, and woe to anyone who tried to collect them, disturbing this disorder! And the owner himself at this time, despite any weather conditions, jogged around the streets of the city.
The famous satirist La Fontaine also loved to take a walk. At the same time, he loudly recited the lines and rhymes that came into his bright head, waving his arms and dancing. Fortunately for him, people then treated such individuals quite calmly, and no one called the orderlies.
The famous writer Leo Tolstoy was famous among his contemporaries not only for his works, but also for his quirks. As a count, he worked in the fields along with the men. At the same time, working in the field side by side with the peasants was not an extravagant hobby for him; he sincerely loved and respected hard physical work. Tolstoy, with pleasure and, what is important, with skill, sewed boots, which he then gave to relatives, mowed grass and plowed the land, surprising the local peasants who were watching him and upsetting his wife.
Over the years, Tolstoy became increasingly obsessed with spiritual quests, and he paid less and less attention to everyday life, striving for asceticism and “simplification” in almost everything. The Count engages in hard peasant labor, sleeps on the bare floor and walks barefoot until the coldest weather, thereby emphasizing his closeness to the people. This is exactly how Ilya Repin captured him in his painting, barefoot, wearing a belted peasant shirt and simple trousers.
Lev Nikolaevich maintained physical vigor and fortitude until his very last days. The reason for this is the count’s passionate love for sports and all kinds of physical exercises, which, in his opinion, were mandatory, especially for those involved in mental work. Tolstoy’s favorite discipline was walking; it is known that already at the quite respectable age of sixty years, he made three walks from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana. In addition, the count was fond of speed skating, mastered cycling, horse riding, swimming, and began every morning with gymnastics.
Already at the advanced age of 82 years, the writer decided to go wandering, leaving his estate, leaving his wife and children. In a farewell letter to his Countess Sophia, Tolstoy writes: “I can no longer live in the conditions of luxury in which I lived, and I do what old people of my age usually do: they leave worldly life to live in solitude and silence for the last days. own life".
And among scientists, Nikola Tesla was known as one of the most eccentric people. Tesla had neither his own house nor apartment - only a laboratory and land. The great inventor usually spent the night right in the laboratory or in hotels in New York. Tesla never married. According to him, a solitary lifestyle helped the development of his scientific abilities.
He was terribly afraid of germs, constantly washed his hands, and in hotels he could demand up to a couple of dozen towels a day. By the way, in hotels he always checked whether the number of his apartment would be a multiple of three, and otherwise he flatly refused to check in. If a fly landed on the table during lunch, Tesla demanded that the waiters bring everything again. In modern psychiatry, there is a special term for this kind of oddity - “mysophobia”.
Tesla counted steps while walking, the volume of bowls of soup, cups of coffee and pieces of food. If he failed to do this, then the food did not give him pleasure, so he preferred to eat alone.
Having become the author of many inventions that changed the life of modern civilization, Nikola Tesla left behind even more rumors and guesses about incredible discoveries, which for some reason never reached their publication and application.
Interesting stories from life famous of people .
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The Roman Emperor Julius Caesar always wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his progressive baldness.
The great khan of the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan, died while having sex.
And the author of the stories about Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, was an ophthalmologist by profession.
The creator of Mickey Mouse, the famous Walt Disney, was afraid of mice all his life.
The famous Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh sold only one of his works during his lifetime - Red Vineyard at Arles.
And the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began composing music at the age of 3. Over 35 years, Mozart created over 600 works. But after his death, his widow did not even have money for a separate place in the cemetery.
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein did not speak a word until he was 3 years old, but by the age of 12 he understood Euclidean geometry.
The German poet, statesman, thinker and naturalist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once tasted Franconian wine from Bavaria, and was so impressed that from then on he demanded that 900 Franconian liters be sent to him per year.
Many of Remarque’s characters, like himself, prefer Norman apple brandy to Calvados.
Macedonian king from the Argead dynasty, commander Alexander the Great? knew 30,000 soldiers of his army by sight.
On May 24, 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute (Cambridge, USA) offers a million dollars for solving each of the seven mathematical “millennium problems”, including the Poincaré conjecture, formulated in 1904. On November 1, 2002, Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman publishes on the website of the mathematical archive the first of three articles, based on the results of which he will be recognized as a scientist who has overcome one of the most difficult problems of topology. In March 2010, the Clay Institute awarded Perelman a million-dollar prize. On July 1, 2010, Perelman refused the prize, just as he had previously rejected the “mathematical Nobel” - the Fields Medal. The refusal is explained on ethical grounds: Perelman believes that he owes his success to the mathematician Hamilton, on whose work he relied.
Literary success came to I. Goncharov only at the age of 40.
And the English physicist, mathematician, mechanic and astronomer Isaac Newton wrote the preface to his works when he was 72 years old.
The Ser-Russian empress from 1762 to 1796, Catherine the Great (Catherine II), loved beer. It was for her that the British brewed especially strong beer - so that it would not spoil on the road. This type of beer is called “Russian stout”. It is not pasteurized, but matures in barrels for 2 months, after which it is aged in bottles for a whole year.
The German historian Theodor Mommsen once rummaged through all his pockets to find glasses. The little girl sitting next to him handed them to him. “Thank you, baby,” Mommsen said, “What’s your name?” “Anna Mommsen, dad,” the girl answered.
T pack Shakur is an American rapper, film actor and public figure.
He was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful hip-hop artist, having sold a total of more than 75 million copies of his albums.
The late Tupac Shakur is the first member of the hip-hop world to be honored with a monument. The seven-foot bronze statue of the hero of black America was unveiled on September 13, 2005 at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
One day, young Thomas Edison returned home from school and gave his mother a letter from his teacher.
The mother read the letter out loud to her son, with tears in her eyes: “Your son is a genius. This and the school is too small, and there are no teachers here who can teach him anything. Please teach it yourself.”
Many years after his mother's death (Edison by that time was already one of the greatest inventors of the century), he was once looking through old family archives and came across this letter.
He opened it and read:
“Your son is mentally retarded. We can no longer teach him at school with everyone else. Therefore, we recommend that you teach it yourself at home.”
Edison cried for several hours. Then he wrote in his diary: “Thomas Alva Edison was a mentally retarded child.
Thanks to his heroic mother, he became one of the greatest geniuses of his age.”
The sculptor Lina Po, completely deprived of sight, created more than a hundred wonderful works by touch.
The influential 16th-century statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon died because he stuffed a gutted chicken with snow (it occurred to him that snow could be used instead of salt to preserve meat, and he tried to test his theory). As a result of the experiment, the chicken did not freeze, but Bacon himself froze.
King Solomon had about 700 wives in Israel, as well as hundreds of mistresses.
Justin Timberlake is afraid of spiders.
In 1972, a young Indian wrote to John Lennon that he had a dream to travel around the world, but had no money, and asked him to send the necessary amount. Lennon replied: “Meditate and you can see the whole world in your mind.” In 1995, an Indian man, having sold Lennon's letter at auction, set off on a trip around the world.
Einstein adored Charlie Chaplin's films and had great sympathy for both him and his touching characters. One day he sent Chaplin a telegram:
“Your film “Gold Rush” is understood by everyone in the world, and I am sure that you will become a great person. Einstein.”
Chaplin replied:
“I admire you even more. Nobody in the world understands your theory of relativity, but you still became a great man.
Chaplin."
Charles Dickens always slept with his head to the north. He thought it would improve his writing skills.
The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence now sells hamburgers.
Marilyn Monroe's used bra sold at auction for $14,000.
During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on men's beards.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Tesla had neither his own house nor apartment - only a laboratory and land. The great inventor usually spent the night right in the laboratory or in hotels in New York. Tesla never married. According to him, a solitary lifestyle helped the development of his scientific abilities.
The myth that Marilyn Monroe had six toes on her left foot arose from one photograph. Photographer Joseph Jagura photographed young Norma Jeane in 1946 at Zuma Beach. In one photo, due to the accumulation of sand that stuck to her foot, it appears that the actress has six toes.
The father of Russian aviation, Zhukovsky, once, after talking the whole evening with friends in his own living room, suddenly got up, looking for his hat, and began to hastily say goodbye, muttering: However, I stayed too long with you, it’s time to go home!
Briefly about famous people (part 1) updated: February 26, 2017 by: website
1. Napoleon was 26 years old when he captured Italy.
2. Baghdad University awarded Uday, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein, a doctorate in political science. Although he did not even have a secondary education. His dissertation was entitled "The Decline of American Power by 2016."
3. In 1938, Time magazine named Hitler "Man of the Year."
4. While serving in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname “Mol.”
5. Hitler was a vegetarian.
6. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra tested the effectiveness of her poisons by forcing her slaves to take them.
7. Cleopatra married her brother, Ptolemy.
8. Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She had Macedonian, Iranian and Greek roots.
9. Lafayette became a general in the US Army at age 19. His full name is: Maria Joseph Paul Yves Rocher Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
10. The Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in the 50s, Alexei Popov, was a famous swearer.
11. The Mongol conqueror Timur (1336-1405) played something like polo with the skulls of the people he killed. He created a pyramid of their severed heads 9 meters high.
12. At the time of Lenin's death, his brain was only a quarter of its normal size.
13. Napoleon was born not in France, but on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were Italian and they had eight children.
14. The national flag of Italy was invented by Napoleon.
15. One of Napoleon's drinking cups was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
16. The founder of the theory of communism, Karl Marx, never visited Russia.
17. The first American Chief Justice, John Jay, bought slaves to free them.
18. The first person in history to be hit by a train was Member of the British Parliament William Haskinson.
19. Winston Churchill's maternal ancestors were... Indians.
20. US President Andrew Jackson believed that the Earth was flat.
21. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on men's beards. However, Peter the Great did not favor bearded men either.
22. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar ordered the execution of her subjects if they appeared to her in dreams without her permission.
23. At her wedding, Queen Victoria was given a piece of cheese 3 meters in diameter and weighing 500 kilograms.
24. King Henry VIII of England executed two of his six wives.
25. The President of Uganda and one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, Idi Amin, served in the British Army before coming to power.
26. British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston died in 1865 on a billiard table, on which he made love to his servants.
27. At the court of King Alfonso of Spain, there was a special position - a hymnist. The fact is that the king had no ear for music at all, and he himself could not distinguish the anthem from other music. The anthem leader had to warn the king when the national anthem was played.
28. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Scorus.
29. The Roman Emperor Nero forced his teacher, the philosopher Seneca, to commit suicide.
30. The height of Peter the Great was approximately 213 cm. Despite the fact that in those days the average height of men was significantly lower than today.
31. Sir Winston Churchill smoked no more than 15 cigars a day.
32. Tom Cruise entered seminary at age 14 to become a priest, but dropped out after a year.
33. The French king Louis XIV had 413 beds.
34. The Israeli king Solomon had approximately 700 wives and several thousand mistresses.
35. King Louis XIV of France, known as the “Sun King,” had over 400 beds.
36. Napoleon had ailurophobia - fear of cats.
37. Winston Churchill was born in the women's toilet of the Blenheim family castle. During the ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth.
38. Physicist and Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr and his brother, famous mathematician Harald Bohr, were football players. Harald was a member of the Danish national team and even took second place at the 1905 Olympics.
39. The phrase “The King is dead, long live the King” was uttered by Catherine de Medici when she learned of the death of her son Charles IX.
40. Swedish King Charles VII, killed in 1167, was the first king of a state named Charles! Charles I, II, III, IV, V and VI never existed, and it is unclear where he got the prefix “seventh”. And after a couple of centuries, King Charles VIII (1448-1457) appeared in Sweden.
41. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession.
42. Attila the Barbarian died in 453 on his wedding night immediately after the wedding.
43. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 beans.
44. Britain's Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who ruled Britain for 64 years, spoke English with an accent. She had German roots.
45. In 1357, a dead woman was crowned Queen of Portugal. She became Princess Ines de Castro, the second wife of Pedro I. 2 years earlier, her father-in-law, Alfonso "The Proud", who hated her for being a commoner, secretly ordered his men to kill her and her children. When Pedro became king, he ordered Ines's body to be removed from the grave and forced the nobility to recognize her as Queen of Portugal.
46. In 1849, Senator David Atchison became President of the United States for only 1 day, and for most of this day he... slept.
47. The Grand Vizier of Persia Abdul Kassim Ismail (who lived in the 10th century) never parted with his library. If he went somewhere, the library “followed” him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by 400 camels. Moreover, the books (along with camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.
48. The great Genghis Khan died while having sex.
49. Hannibal died in 183 BC. e. taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
50. Hans Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word without errors.
51. Henry IV often flogged his son, the future Louis XIII.
52. Danish king Frederick IV was a bigamist. He married twice while his wife Queen Louise was alive. His first lover died during childbirth, his second mistress was queen for only 19 days after the death of Queen Louise. All the children from both of his mistresses either died at birth or in infancy, as he believed for his sinful life. Later he became extremely religious.
53. Jack the Ripper, the most famous murderer of the 19th century, always committed his crimes on weekends.
54. Dr. Alice Chace, who wrote the book “Healthy Eating” and many books about proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
55. Once the merchant Krasnobryukhov turned to Alexander I with a request to change his surname, and he allowed him to be called... Sinebryukhov. After this, the merchant, out of grief, left for Finland and founded the famous Koff brewing company there.
56. When Russian Queen Elizabeth I died in 1762, more than 15,000 dresses were discovered in her wardrobe.
57. Mozart began composing music at age 3.
58. There is not a single living descendant of William Shakespeare left on Earth.
59. Before composing music, Beethoven would pour a bucket of cold water on his head, believing that this would stimulate the brain.
60. While developing the electric light bulb, Thomas Edison wrote 40 thousand pages.
61. Felix Mendelssohn wrote “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the age of 17. This became his most famous work.
62. Beria suffered from syphilis.
63. More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach became organists.
64. In the group ZZ Top, only one member does not have a beard. And his name is Beard, which translated from English means... “beard”.
65. Since 1932, only Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have not been elected to a second term as president.
66. Ilf and Petrov discarded ideas that came to both of their minds at once - in order to avoid cliches.
67. When Beethoven wrote the famous Ninth Symphony, he was completely deaf.
68. Composer Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of German composer Richard Wagner.
69. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
70. The writer Rudyard Kipling could not write with ink unless it was black.
71. The writer Charles Dickens worked with his face turned to the north. He also always slept with his head facing north.
72. The Roman Emperor Commodus collected dwarfs, cripples and freaks from all over the Roman Empire to arrange fights between them in the Colosseum.
73. Roman Emperor Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his increasing baldness.
74. Russian composer Alexander Borodin was also a famous chemist in St. Petersburg.
75. The smallest American president is James Madison (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln is the tallest (1.93 m).
76. The shortest British monarch is Charles I. His height was 4 feet 9 inches (about 140 cm). After his head was cut off, his height became even smaller.
77. The body of Voltaire, who died in 1778, was stolen from his grave and was never found. The loss was discovered in 1864.
78. Balzac has a whole book dedicated to... a tie.
79. The British Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) had about 3,000 outfits.
80. American Pete Ruff knocks an apple off his own head with a boomerang.
81. American industrial magnate and billionaire John Rockefeller donated more than $550 million. to various foundations and institutions.
82. American President Benjamin Franklin advocated for the turkey to be America's national bird.
83. In 1856, the English chemist William Perkin, while trying to obtain quinine from aniline, invented the first artificial dye, mauvais.
84. In the village of Lobovskoye, Saratov region, there lives a beekeeper who can withstand 40 hours in a hive with bees completely naked.
85. Between 1952 and 1966, 5 children were born into the family of Ralph and Carolyn Cummins, and all of them had a birthday on February 20th.
86. Galileo Galilei was the first person to propose the use of a pendulum to measure time.
87. Hannibal died in 183 BC after taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
88. Grover Cleveland was the only US president to get married in the White House.
89. James Madison was the smallest American president (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln was the tallest (1.93 m).
90. Dr. Alice Chace, who wrote the book Healthy Eating and many books about proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
91. Over 35 years, Mozart created over 600 works. But after his death, the widow did not have money for a separate place in the cemetery
92. Famous bull fighter of the 19th century. Lagarijo (born Rafael Molina) killed 4,867 bulls.
93. When the German physicist A. Einstein died, his last words went with him. The nurse who was nearby did not understand German.
94. The maximum number of crossword puzzles was created by Andrian Bell. From January 1930 to 1980, he sent 4,520 crossword puzzles to The Times.
95. Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was rescued from a traffic accident by a certain Edwin Booth. As it turns out, Edwin is the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Father tried to kill father, and their children saved each other
96. The first American president to use a telephone was James Garfield.
97. The concept of a negative number was first introduced by the Italian merchant Pisano in 1202, denoting his debts and losses.
98. The world's largest private collection of meteorites belongs to the American Robert Haag - from the age of 12 he collected 2 tons of celestial stones.
99. Thomas Edison had a bird collection of 5,000 specimens.
100. The French Jeanne Louise and Guy Bruti compiled a crossword puzzle on a sheet of paper 5 m long and 3 m wide, from 18 thousand words and 50 thousand cells.
101. Shakespeare mentioned roses more than 50 times in his poems.
102. Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, was the only president to sew his own clothes.
103. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day - February 12, 1809. The scientist lived almost 20 years longer than the politician.
104. Bill Clinton sent as many as two emails during his entire presidency, one of which was a test email to check that everything was working fine. I wonder who the second letter was to? Maybe Monica?
105. In 1759, Arthur Guinness leased St Gate's Brewery for 9,000 years at a rent of £45 per annum. The famous Guinness beer began to be brewed there.
106. In 1981, Deborah Anne Fontan, Miss New York, was disqualified for excessive use of cotton padding in a swimsuit competition.
107. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting - he preferred to bow
108. The only US president who is also the chairman of any union is Ronald Reagan, who heads the Screen Actors Guild.
109. If you remember a little about your school physics course, you know that there is a Richter temperature scale. So this same Charles Richter was a malicious nudist, which is why his wife left him.
110. If you read the works of the writer Stephen King, you should notice that most of the actions of his stories take place in Maine. Paradoxically, this state has the lowest crime rate in the United States.
111. The founder of psychoanalysis has many oddities. Freud was terrified of the number 62. He refused to reserve a hotel room with more than 62 rooms for fear of accidentally getting a room with number 62. He used cocaine, like many of his contemporaries.
112. The famous entrepreneur Henry Ford preferred to hire people with physical disabilities - among the workers of his factories in 1919, there was one disabled person for every four healthy people.
113. Louis Pasteur's research was sponsored by a brewery. They also paid for his ticket to the international congress. When Pasteur was given the floor at the congress, the first thing he did was hang advertising posters with beer on the stage. And he began his speech by saying that this beer is the best. And only then did he get down to business.
114. Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins of Prince Charles's wife, Camilla
115. The father of the famous comedian Leslie Nielsen (“The Naked Gun”, etc.) served as a police officer in Canada, and his brother worked in the Canadian Parliament
116. Tennis player Andre Agassi's father represented Iran at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. He was... a boxer
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