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    Famous Personalities Facts

    Here is a list of all the famous personalities facts which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there is a lot of stuff related to the lives of famous people which you didn’t know.
    • Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dates his most famous painting – the Mona Lisa!
    • George Bush and Sadam Hussein both had their shoe hand-made by the same Italian shoemaker!
    • At his first year of Harrow, Winston Churchill was at the bottom of the whole school!
    • Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded!
    • The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon , and Elvis Presley!
    • Bruce Lee could perform one-hand push-ups using only the thumb and index finger. Lee performed 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups!
    • Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time!
    • Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined!
    • Bruce Lee could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick!
    • The youngest Pope was 11 years old!
    • Francis Galton, the inventor of modern fingerprinting methods, had many other notable ideas: the weather map, the phrase “nature vs. nurture,” and the silent dog whistle!
    • All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public!
    • The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence – he invented dynamite!
    • Mozart never went to school!
    • The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte!
    • Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems!
    • Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts!
    • Marilyn Monroe had six toes!
    • Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de Los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso!
    • In thanks for narrating a documentary, the museum of Natural History named a spider after Harrison Ford – Calponia Harrisonfordi!
    • Adolf Hitler was Time Magazine‘s Man of the Year for 1938!
    • The first “Teddy Bear” was made in honour of the then American President Theodore Roosevelt (nicknamed Teddy) after he refused to shoot a bear cub on one of his hunting trips!
    • The French King, Lois XIV owned a collection of 413 beds in several places all over France, so that he could sleep in his own bed, no matter where he travelled!
    • George Bernard Shaw is the only person to win both – a Nobel Prize and an Oscar!
    • Newton served as a member of the Parliament of England for one year. During all the lengthy proceedings, he spoke only once : he asked the person next to him to close an open window!
    • Artin Elmayan, 95 years old, from Argentina, is the world’s oldest professionally ranked tennis player!
    • The last words of the Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) were “Ow,fuck”!
    • Barack Obama’s favourite cartoon character is Spongebob Squarepants!
    • Leonardo da Vinci worked on painting Mona Lisa for 15 years when he died in the year 1519, he still didn’t consider it to be finished!


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