FACTS

People Facts

Zsa zsa gabor was the first, and only, recipient of Golden Globe Award for Most Glamorous Actress. She won it in 1958, after which the category was deleted.
The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn’t have any pedals. People walked it along.
The ancient Greek women made a type of cheek blush by painting their cheeks with herbal pastes which was made out of crushed berries and seeds.
Galileo had turned totally blind shortly before his death, probably because of the damage done to his eyes over many years of looking at the sun through a telescope.
Hippocrates noted the medicinal properties of lettuce in 430 BC.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies cloakroom in the ancestral castle of Blenheim. His mother was attending a formal ball there when she prematurely delivered.
Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has ever appeared on a US currency note.
People say ‘bless you’ when you sneeze because your heart actually stops for a millisecond when you sneeze.
After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had.
In 1916, Charlie Chaplin was making $10,000 a week, making him the highest paid actor of his time.
It has been suggested that shepherds are responsible for inventing the game golf. It is said that they used to use their staffs to hit the stones.
Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
The first African-American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph J Bunche in 1950.
The world’s first test tube twins are Stephen and Amanda Mays, born June 5, 1981.
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan’s real name was Temujin.
The oldest actor to win a Best Actor Oscar is Henry Fonda. He was 76 when he won it.
Charlie Chaplin once lost a contest for a Charlie Chaplin look alike.
James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the United States.
The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross.
Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic, in the year 1917.
The first tattoo machine was invented by Samuel O’Reilly.
Walt Disney had originally suggested using the name Mortimer Mouse instead of Mickey Mouse.
US president Franklin D Roosevelt is the only man to receive the Time’s Man of the Year award thrice. He received it in the years 1932, 1934 and 1941.
The 20th president of United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.
The trucking company Elvis Presley worked for at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
David Rice Atchinson was president of the United States for exactly one day.
Michael Jackson patented the anti-gravity bend from the Smooth Criminal video.
Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940s.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades: Kind David, Clubs: Alexander the great, Hearts: Charlemagne and Diamonds: Julius Caesar.
Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed apple sauce squeezed from a tube abroad friendship in 1962.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Ramses II a Phoroah of Egypt died in 1225 B.C. At the time of his death, he had fathered 96 sons and 60 daughters.
Elvis Presley made only one television commercial – an ad for a doughnut company, in 1954.
Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a patent.
In 1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture (its rating has since been changed to R).
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning. Her doctor recommended this to improve her memory.
Alexander the Great was one of the most famous generals in history. He conquered much of the early civilized works, and introduced Greek ideas and ways to the people he conquered.
When Anthony Bourdain was making his food and travel shows, he would sometimes avoid saying the name of a restaurant on TV to keep it from getting taken over by tourists.
Adolf Hitler sent expeditions to India and Tibet to collect ancient Sanskrit texts and decode the technology regarding Vimanas.
Elvis was a natural blond and dyes his hair black.
In 1984, a woman started hearing a voice in her head. The voice told her, she had a brain tumor, where the tumor was and how to treat it. It happens to be true when the doctors tested.
A women is more responsive to romance when her stomach is full.