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Leonardo da Vinci painted only 17 paintings – and some of them were unfinished. The Roman emperor Nero played the bagpipe. Alexander the Great was buried in a vat of honey. Galileo went blind studying the sun through telescope. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns. Albert Einstein slept 10 hours a night. Bentio Mussolini was a schoolteacher before he went into politics. Henry Ford was America’s first billionire. To avoid being trapped in a burning building, Hans Christian Anderson always carried a rope. Julius Caesar was epileptic. General Douglas MacArthur’s mother dressed him in skirts until he was eight years old. William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, also invented the polygraph. Most experts believe Jack the Ripper was left-handed. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. There are no photographs of Abe Lincoln smiling. Napoleon designed Italy’s national flag. Florence Nightingale carried a pet owl in her pocket wherever she traveled. George Washington loved to play marbles. Michelangelo drew his illiterate cook a shopping list. Today it’s a priceless work of art. Vincent Van Gogh was able to sell only one painting (The Red Vineyard) during his lifetime.
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htf do u put an owl in your pocket and carry it around.
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William Shakespeare died on the same day he was born, 23th April.
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Did you know that Albert Einstein was in Singapore twice in the 1920s?
It was one one trip here, in 1922 to raise funds for the Hebrew Universtiy of Jerusalem, that Einstein received a letter telling him he had won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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the facts above are very interesting! maybe some one can shed light on who invented the telephone? ( wasnt alexander graham bell i believed, but was an italian) who invented the longest lasting light bulb? (was known an italian whose bulb lasted 40 hours, compared to einstein's 35 mins)
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Abraham lincoln kept his beard for a girl Napoleon wasn't french but italian i think Cleopatra wasn't egyptian I learn all this fact from a dong fong(ch49 starhub) programme. It used to show at 10pm every tuesday but don't have now
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Sir Stamford Raffles too if I'm not wrong.Originally posted by Gordonator: William Shakespeare died on the same day he was born, 23th April.
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All I know is that this Italian was late in submitting his invention. Forgot his name though.Originally posted by 105090:the facts above are very interesting! maybe some one can shed light on who invented the telephone? ( wasnt alexander graham bell i believed, but was an italian)
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wow...all ur info authentic? i m learning here........
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Ludwig van Beethoven turned deaf but still manages to compose.
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well, i myself will make sure that all the info that i have posted are authentic when i post them.Originally posted by fire & ice:wow...all ur info authentic? i m learning here........
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yes u are correct. Sir Stamford Raffles was born on 5th July 1781 and died on 5th July 1826. he found Singapore on 29th January 1819, and died 7 years later at the age of 45 years old.Originally posted by ne0matrix:Sir Stamford Raffles too if I'm not wrong. -
Adolf Hitler wasn't German. He was Austrian.
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awesome!!.. love these cool facts
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do come often.Originally posted by coffeeortea:awesome!!.. love these cool facts -
Lee Kuan Yew remained as the Prime Minister until 1990, an amazing term of 31 years!
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yup =) i always come and read the stuff.. especially today in history
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thanks for your support.Originally posted by coffeeortea:yup =) i always come and read the stuff.. especially today in history -
he is one of the few who can distinguish the musical note just by listening to that particular musical note alone.Originally posted by I_am_PeTe_Parker: Ludwig van Beethoven turned deaf but still manages to compose. -
Joseph Stalin the former USSR dictator who modernised the country by building a lot of industries but a lot of people suffer under him
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Originally posted by ne0matrix: Adolf Hitler wasn't German. He was Austrian. He's a vegetarian. His blood group is A(Read it from Straits Times years ago) He only became German citizen in 1932. In a recent IQ estimate of historical figures,he was estimated to have IQ of 141. He hated smoking so much that he banned everyone around for smoking;In fact he also initiated an anti-smoking campaign in Germany. Before Adolf Hitler 'Adolf' is a popular name amongst the Jews;after WW2 Jews with this name changed it and the popularity of the name decreased dramatically. Got Iron-Cross first-class for bravery,a medal mostly reserved for officers and rarely awarded to a lance corporal.
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Originally posted by SBS2688D:
[b]Joseph Stalin the former USSR dictator who modernised the country by building a lot of industries but a lot of people suffer under him[/b] He is a Georgian(Not the US state,but a country in Caucasus area) not a Russian His original name is Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili His mother wanted him to be a priest,sent him to a seminary but he got kicked out just before his graduation. In USA during WW2,he was known as 'Uncle Joe',when Franklin Roosevelt told him about this nickname he almost walked out of the Yalta conference. -
Originally posted by The man who was death:
To be more accurate he was a Coriscan,but at the time there isnt a modern-state of Italy in existence. Napoleon wasn't french but italian i think
She is from Ptolemy family,descedent of Ptolemy I Soter,who was the general under Alexander the Great. Cleopatra wasn't egyptian
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