It is said that on New Year’s Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513 people. Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that he was US President. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden. Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875. John Rolfe married Pocahontas the Red Indian Princess in 1613. There are about 5,000 prince and princesses in each Saudi Arabian royal. The British royal family changed their surname (last name) from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor, the name of their castle, in 1917.Ī Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince. The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing with his hand resting on a sword or by holding gloves. King George I of England did not speak English.Īnne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand.Įlizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses. 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.Īlexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf. Winston Churchill was 5’6″ (1.68 m) tall.Īlthough he is often referred to as the “little corporal” Napoleon was of average height.īank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball. Joseph Stalin’s left foot had webbed toes and his left arm was noticably shorter than his right. Hugh “Ward Cleaver” Beaumont was an ordained minister.īoth Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle. Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth… and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”Ĭharles de Gaulle’s final words were, “It hurts.” Julius Caesar was known as a great swimmer.ĭr. Orville Wright numbered the eggs that his chickens produced so he could eat them in the order they were laid. He sold one-liners for ten cents each to gossip columnists. Until he was 18, Woody Allen read virtually nothing but comic books but did show his writing skills. Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.Īdriaan van der Donck was the first and only lawyer in New York City in 1653.īurt Reynold’s father was the chief of police in West Palm Beach, Florida.īefore writing 007 novels, Ian Fleming studied languages at Munich and Geneva universities, worked with Reuters in Moscow, and then became a banker and stockbroker.
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