Some the odd things about the world that you will never need to know, but might find interesting anyway!
~ Julius Caesar was epileptic.
~ George Washington was the only U.S. president ever to be elected unanimously.
~ Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a system to adjust the buoyancy of steamboats.
~ Albert Einstein declined presidency over the state of Israel when state leaders offered it to him.
~ Killer whales (which are actually dolphins) jump onto land to scare animals such as seals into the water.
~ Mao Zedong was married when he was 14.
~ Zachary Taylor's favorite horse, Whitey, roamed freely across the White House lawns during his presidency.
~ Michelangelo was also a celebrated poet with 300 works that have survived to today.
~ American alligators have webbed feet, but Chinese alligators don't.
~ The original oompa-loompas were black, not orange.
~ Leonardo da Vinci was vegetarian. He was such an animal-rights advocate that he would go to the market to by birds for the sake of releasing them.
~ A lion’s roar can be heard 5 miles away.
~ A koala will remain in a single tree for a period of many days.
~ John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic president.
~Idi Amin, president of Uganda, has fathered 43 children.
~ During winter hibernation, the golden hamster’s pulse drops from 400 beats per minute to 4.
~ Galileo is very well known for using telescopes, but he also built the first thermometer.
~ After defeating the Tatars, Genghis Khan ordered the slaughter of all people taller than a cart handle, ensuring the loyalty of the next generation.
~ George W. Bush was the head cheerleader of his high school.
~ As a schoolboy in 1940, Fidel Castro wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt asking for a ten-dollar bill and offering to lead him to Cuban iron mines that could provide ore for use in American shipbuilding.
~ One gram of cobra venom is potent enough to kill more than 50 people.
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