Strange Facts about Famous People

·     Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

·     Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!

·     Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

·     Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

·     Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

·     Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima
Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.

·     Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers. (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

·     Einstein couldn't speak fluently until his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.

·     Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

·     Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

·     Walt Disney got his idea for Mickey Mouse while he worked in a garage. He was watching the mice play one night and got the
inspiration for Mortimer Mouse. He didn't change the name until shortly before he finished the first Mickey Mouse cartoon - the
1928 "Steamboat Willie".

·     The youngest pope was 11 years old. 

·     Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

·     In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

·     The world's greatest lover was King Mongut of Siam. He had 9,000 wives. Before dying of syphilis, he was quoted in saying he only loved the first 700.