Historical facts about famous personalities. Interesting facts about great people

Famous personalities differ from us not only in their achievements in a particular area of ​​life. Facts from the life of famous people confirm their oddities. Famous people have such an entertaining biography that you want to study it in full. Interesting Facts from the life of famous people will appeal to both children and adults.

1. captured Italy at the age of 26.

2. Time magazine named Hitler's Man of the Year.

3. Cleopatra was married to her brother.

4. Facts from the life of famous people of America confirm that Andrew Jackson, the President of the United States, considered the Earth to be flat.

5. At the wedding, Queen Victoria was presented with a piece of cheese, the diameter of which was 3 meters, and the weight was 500 kilograms.

6. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' toilet. When there was a ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth to him there.

7. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 beans.

8. Beria had syphilis.

9. Celine Dion and Madonna are the cousins ​​of the wife of Prince Charles.

10. almost always fell asleep in front of the fireplace. As a result, he experienced sleep deprivation.

11. Socks were considered the most stupid thing.

12. The most loving man is the king of the island of Tonga, who is located in pacific ocean. His name was Fatafehi ​​Paulah.

13. I have never had children, and intimate relationships too.

14. Facts from the life of famous people of Russia say that Alexander Suvorov did not lose a single battle.

15. always worked on the field on a par with other men. And this happened despite the fact that he was a count.

16. Nikola Tesla had panic fear towards microbes.

17. Andriana Lima, who is considered famous brazilian model, remained faithful until marriage. And exactly 9 months after the wedding, her daughter was born.

18. Paul McCartney, due to his own workload, did not have time to purchase wedding ring own chosen one.

19. Cristiano Ronaldo is the most expensive player in the history of football.

20. Jackie Chan's mom carried him for 12 months and this one was born famous person weighing more than 5 kilograms.

21. Interesting facts about famous people provide information that Marilyn Monroe before she became famous model, worked at an aviation factory.

22. Brad Pitt's first job was to perform on the streets in "chicken" clothes.

24. Marilyn Monroe's bra sold at auction for $14,000.

25. Hiding hair loss, Julius Caesar put a wreath of laurel on his head.

26. Elizabeth the First taxed men who had beards.

27. More than $500 million donated to charity by John D. Rockefeller for own life.

28. Winston Churchill smoked at least 15 cigars a day.

29. King Solomon had about 700 wives and 100 mistresses.

30. Moart has never been to school.

31. Sigmund Freud had a panic rhinestone before the number 62.

32. Louis Pasteur was the sponsor of the beer factory.

33. Alexander the Great knew about 30,000 of his own soldiers by sight.

34. Approximately 3,000 outfits were from Queen Elizabeth.

35. Voltaire's body was stolen from the grave.

36. The Dutch artist Van Gogh had bouts of insanity. In one of them he cut off his ear.

37. Yuri Gagarin wrote a farewell letter to his wife before the flight into space, because he did not know how the expedition would end.

38. Luciano Pavarotti was fond of football.

39. Genghis Khan had a panic fear of death. And this is despite his cruelty towards enemies.

40. When Alla Pugacheva was born, cancer was found on her throat. It was removed immediately.

41. Sylvester Stallone was often beaten in school years.

42. participated in duels more than 90 times.

43. Saddam Hussein wrote the Koran with his own blood.

44. Charlie Chaplin's body was stolen 3 months later by porters who demanded a ransom.

45. When Vladimir Putin worked for the KGB, his code name was "mol".

46. ​​The largest fee in the amount of $ 20 million was first received by Julia Roberts.

47. All shoes for Paris Hillton were made to order, because she has big size feet and it is difficult to find the right shoes.

48. Whoopi Goldberg, who is considered an actress, has no eyebrows.

49. Rihanna didn't even finish school.

50. Beethoven doused himself with ice water in order to raise his mental tone.

51. In his childhood, Charles Darwin's father considered his son mediocrity.

52. Demosthenes had a speech impediment in childhood.

53. Genghis Khan died in the process of making love.

54. Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote Sherlock Holmes, was an ophthalmologist by profession.

55. Walt Disney was afraid of mice throughout his life.

56. Mozart began composing music at the age of 3. At the age of 35, he already had over 600 works.

57. At the age of 3, Albert Einstein did not say a word.

58. Timberlake is very afraid of spiders.

59. The Italian national flag was created by Napoleon Bonaparte.

60. Queen Anne was the mother of 17 children.

61. The autograph of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar was estimated at $ 2 million.

62. Charles Dickens preferred to sleep only facing north.

63. George Washington's birthday was the only birthday that was a public holiday in the US.

64. Uma Thurman's father was a monk and professor of Eastern religion.

65. Taylor Swift played the guitar for the first time at the age of 10.

66. Ashton Kutcher trained as a biochemist.

67. Riana was a cadet in the Barbadian army.

68. Angelina Jolie in her childhood wore braces and glasses, for which she was teased by the guys.

69. Until the age of 16, Jennifer Garner did not wear thongs and did not use cosmetics, because she was forbidden to do so.

70. Tom Cruise had a dream - to become a priest.

71. Demi Moore had an attempt to commit suicide during her school years.

72. Queen Victoria spent 40 years in mourning after the death of her husband. She did not take off her black dresses at that time.

73. Mussolini was scared to death of cats.

74. Alfred Hitchcock was afraid of eggs in any form.

75. Julio Iglesias played in the Real Madrid football team in his youth.

76. The highest paid actor is Charlie Chaplin.

77. Marilyn Monroe grew up in an orphanage.

78. Tchaikovsky had a law degree.

79. Ricky Martin gave birth to two children surrogate mother, and all his life he hid his own orientation.

80. Hitler was a vegetarian.

81. Two of his six spouses were executed by the English King Henry VIII.

82. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife and helped the kids to be born.

83. Kipling could not write his works in ink due to the fact that they were black.

84. Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the turkey the national bird of the United States of America.

85. Bill Clinton has only sent 2 emails in all his years in office.

86. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting, but only bowed.

87. before you start writing activity, was a doctor.

88. Cleopatra preferred to test poisons on her slaves.

89. Winston Churchill had Indian ancestors on his mother's side.

90. Queen Victoria spoke English language with a German accent.

91. Henry Ford, who is considered successful businessman had only a secondary education.

92. Sarah Jessica Parker is tied to a black little dress, so she even got married in a black dress.

93. At one of his concerts, Ozzy Osbourne bit off the head of a bat.

94. Elizabeth Taylor had a double row of eyelashes.

95. In my school years I was a loser in physics.

96. The Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dali.

97. Kate Middleton's wedding dress the morning after the celebration could be purchased for $300.

Once again, we want to invite you to combine business with pleasure and learn a lot of new and interesting things during the breaks caused by the most different reasons. Fill the time of forced waiting with reading easy and at the same time useful information for broadening one's horizons. This time we bring to your attention the most incredible and little known facts from world history. Thanks to its convenient design, the book can be used in almost any environment.

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The following excerpt from the book Required reading. 1000 new interesting facts for the mind and entertainment (E. Mirochnik, 2014) provided by our book partner - the company LitRes.

Chapter 2 Incredible Facts from the life of great people

Great Losers

Beethoven's teacher considered him a completely mediocre student. The great composer, until the end of his life, never mastered such a mathematical action as multiplication.

Darwin, who had abandoned medicine, was bitterly reproached by his father: “You are not interested in anything but catching dogs and rats!”

Walt Disney was fired from the paper for lack of ideas.

Edison's mentor said of him that he was stupid and could not learn anything.

Einstein did not speak until the age of four. His teacher described him as mentally retarded.

The father of Rodin, the great sculptor, said: “My son is an idiot. He failed three times in art school.”

Mozart, one of the most brilliant composers, Emperor Ferdinand said that in his "The Marriage of Figaro" "too little noise and too many notes."

Our compatriot Mendeleev had a triple in chemistry.

When we look at Ford cars, we mean that their creator, Henry Ford, has always been a wealthy, successful businessman. We see this huge empire that has been living for more than a hundred years. But few of us know that before achieving financial success, Ford declared himself bankrupt several times, went bankrupt clean - a man who changed the course of history, putting the world on wheels.

Henry Ford never had a driver's license.

When Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio and told his friends that he would transmit words over a distance through the air, they thought he was crazy and took him to a psychiatrist. But within a few months, his radio saved the lives of many sailors.

Nikolai Gogol, oddly enough, wrote rather mediocre compositions at school. Some progress he noted only in Russian literature and drawing. In addition, Nikolai Vasilyevich was an extremely shy person: for example, if a stranger appeared in the company, Gogol simply quietly left the room.

The great silent film actor Charlie Chaplin learned to read much later than he got his first role in the theater. He was terribly afraid that someone would discover his illiteracy, so he avoided situations in every possible way where he could be forced to read excerpts from the role.

The eminent politician Winston Churchill was an excellent orator. But as a child, he stuttered and lisped, and only thanks to a good speech therapist, speech defects were corrected.

In addition, Churchill literally hated the school. He was the worst student in the class and often received cuffs from teachers. When the father noticed that his son was fond of toy soldiers, he suggested that he enter the military academy. Churchill entered there ... on the third attempt.

The famous storyteller Hans Christian Andersen wrote with grammatical and spelling errors until the end of his life. He had particular difficulties with punctuation marks. Therefore, many Money it took to pay for the work of people who rewrote his works before they get to the publishing house.

Alexander Pushkin, as we know, was a lyceum graduate. But he got into it by pull - his uncle attached him there. And that's when to graduation party prepared lists of graduates, Pushkin was listed second in his academic performance ... from the bottom.

Author of the law gravity Isaac Newton was a member of the House of Lords. We must give him his due - he attended all meetings of the chamber regularly, but for many years he did not utter a word there. And then one day he still asked to give him the opportunity to speak. Everyone literally froze, waiting for the significant speech of the great scientist. And in absolute silence, Newton said: “Gentlemen! I ask you to close the window, otherwise I may catch a cold! And that's it! This was his only performance.

The university graduation certificate of the German philosopher Georg Hegel stated: “A young man with sound judgments, but did not differ in eloquence and did not show himself in philosophy in any way.”

Little is known about the biography of Sylvester Stallone to a wide range of viewers who admire their favorite hero on the screen, and meanwhile the future action star was known at the school where he studied as a real gangster! His teachers unanimously repeated that Stallone would definitely kill someone and end his life in prison, with life term or be executed! Probably for this reason, young Sylvester changed several schools every year, of which there were 15 in the end!

Colombian singer Shakira was kicked out of her school choir at the age of 10 because her teacher didn't like her voice. Then she practically abandoned her dream of a musical career.

A woman with outstanding forms, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez at one time simply could not pass the very first selection in her life for filming in television commercials. The fact is that the experts who evaluated the contenders for the role of the girl who will advertise the jeans unanimously declared that Lopez simply would not fit into them.

The strangest deeds and habits of great people

The 16th-century astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose research helped Sir Isaac Newton create the theory of universal gravitation, took an untimely farewell to life because he did not go to the toilet on time. In those days, to leave the table before the end of the feast meant to inflict a grave insult on the owner of the house. Being a courteous man, Brahe did not dare to ask permission to leave the table. His bladder burst, and, after suffering for 11 days, the astronomer died.

Jean-Baptiste Lully, a 17th-century composer who wrote music for the French king, died from an excess of devotion to his work. Once, during the rehearsal of the next concert, he got so excited that, knocking his cane on the floor, he broke his own leg and died from blood poisoning.

The great illusionist Harry Houdini died after being punched in the stomach by a fan. Houdini let people hit him, demonstrating the wonders of impenetrable abs. He died in the hospital from internal injuries.

The twelfth president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, after a ceremony on a particularly hot day on July 4, 1850, ate too much ice cream, fell ill with indigestion and died five days later, having been president for only 16 months.

Jack Daniel, the father of the famous Jack Daniel's whiskey, died of blood poisoning after suffering a leg injury: he broke his finger kicking his safe, to which he forgot the combination.

Vincent van Gogh painted for days, drank absinthe in buckets, cut off his left ear and painted a self-portrait in this form, and at the age of 37 he committed suicide. After his death, by the way, more than 150 medical diagnoses were made public by doctors, which were made to the great painter during his lifetime.

Gustave Flaubert, while working, moaned along with the characters he portrayed, cried and laughed, walked quickly around the office with large steps and loudly chanted words.

Honore de Balzac was afraid of getting married more than anything. Long years he was in love with Countess Evelyn Hanska. Balzac resisted for another eight years, but still the countess insisted on the wedding. From fear, the writer fell ill and even wrote to his bride: they say, my health is such that you would rather accompany me to the cemetery than have time to try on my name. But the wedding took place. True, Honore was taken down the aisle in an armchair, since he himself could not walk.

The French artist Henri Matisse, before starting to paint, had an acute desire to strangle someone.

Voltaire drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day.

Ivan Krylov had an inexplicable mania: he loved to look at the fires and tried not to miss a single fire in St. Petersburg.

When the blues attacked Ivan Turgenev, he put a high cap on his head and put himself in a corner. And he stood there until the longing passed.

Anton Chekhov liked to talk unusual compliments: “dog”, “actress”, “snake”, “crocodile of my soul”.

William Burroughs at one of the parties wanted to surprise the guests. The writer planned to repeat the act of the archer William Tell, who hit an apple standing on the head of his own son. Burroughs placed the glass on the head of his wife, Joan Vollmer, and fired his pistol. The wife died from a bullet in the head.

Ivan the Terrible in the mornings and evenings personally rang the bells on the main belfry of Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda. Thus, they say, he tried to drown out mental suffering.

Lord Byron became extremely irritated at the sight of a salt shaker.

Charles Dickens always washed down a sip of hot water every 50 lines of writing.

Johannes Brahms "for inspiration" constantly unnecessarily cleaned shoes.

Isaac Newton once welded a pocket watch while holding an egg and looking at it.

Ludwig van Beethoven went constantly unshaven, believing that shaving hinders creative inspiration. And before sitting down to write music, the composer poured a bucket over his head cold water: this, in his opinion, should have been very stimulating for the brain.

Alexander Pushkin was very fond of shooting in the bathhouse. They say that in the village of Mikhailovskoye, almost nothing authentic since the time of the poet has been properly preserved, but the wall at which Pushkin fired was surprisingly intact.

Fyodor Dostoevsky could not work without strong tea. When he wrote his novels at night, there was always a glass of tea on his desk, and the samovar was always kept hot in the dining room.

Johann Goethe worked only in a hermetically sealed room, without the slightest access to fresh air.

Commander Alexander Suvorov was famous for his strange antics: an unusual daily routine - he went to bed at six o'clock in the evening and woke up at two in the morning, an unusual awakening - he doused himself with cold water and loudly shouted "ku-ka-re-ku!", unusual for we lay the commander in bed - with all the ranks, he slept in the hay. Preferring to walk in old boots, he could easily go out to meet high officials in a sleeping cap and underwear.

He also gave the signal to attack to his beloved “ku-ka-re-ku!”, And, they say, after he was promoted to field marshal, he began to jump over chairs and say: “And I jumped over this one, and through this - then!"

Suvorov was very fond of marrying his serfs, guided by a very peculiar principle - he lined them up in a row, selected those who were suitable for their height, and then married 20 couples at a time.

Emperor Nicholas I did not like music and, as a punishment for officers, gave them a choice between a guardhouse and listening to Glinka's operas.

Emperor Nicholas I ordered to hang portraits of his ancestors in the toilet. In addition, Nikolai Pavlovich transferred his library to the closet.

Arthur Schopenhauer was famous for his excellent appetite and ate for two; if someone made a remark to him on this score, he answered that he thought for two.

He used to pay for two seats so that no one could sit down at his table.

At dinner, he used to talk loudly with his poodle Atman, and at the same time every time he addressed him as "you" and "sir" if he behaved well, and "you" and "man" if he was a master in something upset.

Sigmund Freud hated music. He threw away his sister's piano and did not go to restaurants with an orchestra.

French writer Guy de Maupassant was one of those who annoyed the Eiffel Tower. Nevertheless, he dined daily at her restaurant, explaining that this was the only place in Paris where the tower was not visible.

Hunter Thompson, before filming the film adaptation of his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, came to film set. The role of Raoul Duke was played by Johnny Depp. The writer being able alcohol intoxication, personally cut the movie star's hair, making a huge bald patch on Depp's head.

The third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, independently designed his tombstone and wrote the text for it, which did not indicate that he was president.

The sixteenth US President Abraham Lincoln always wore a tall black top hat on his head, inside which he kept letters, financial papers, bills and notes.

Chinese state and political figure XX century Mao Zedong never brushed his teeth. And to the words that it was unhygienic, he answered: “Have you ever seen a tiger brush his teeth?”

English football player David Beckham does not tolerate disorder. The surrounding objects must be carefully selected in color, shape and size, and their number must be a multiple of two.

funny cases from life famous people

Once, Albert Einstein was riding a tram in Leipzig. And in this very tram there was a conductor. The conductor approached the physicist and asked him to pay the fare. Einstein quite calmly counted out the required amount and handed it to the conductor. He counted the money and said that another 5 pfennigs were missing.

- I carefully considered! It can't be! Einstein objected.

Galileo Galilei first wedding night spent on a book. Noticing that it was already dawn, he went to the bedroom, but immediately went out and asked the servant: “Who is lying in my bed?” “Your wife, sir,” replied the servant. Galileo completely forgot that he was married.

Once Voltaire was invited to a dinner party. When everyone was seated, it turned out that the maestro found himself between two grumpy gentlemen. Having drunk well, Voltaire's neighbors began to argue how to properly address the servants: "Bring me some water!" or "Give me water!". Voltaire unwittingly found himself right at the epicenter of this dispute. Finally, tired of this disgrace, the maestro could not stand it and said:

- Gentlemen, both of these expressions are inapplicable to you! Both of you should say: "Take me to the watering hole!"

Once Vladimir Mayakovsky had to speak in front of a whole hall of writers. This was not uncommon for him, but that performance of the proletarian poet became special. While he was reading his poems on the podium, one of the poet's ill-wishers, who were enough in those years, shouted:

I don't understand your poetry! They are kind of stupid!

“It's okay, your children will understand,” Vladimir Vladimirovich answered.

- And my children will not understand your poems! - continued the ill-wisher.

“Well, why are you talking about your children right away,” the poet replied with a grin. “Maybe their mother is smart, maybe they will follow her.

Once, speaking at a polytechnic institute at a debate about proletarian internationalism, Vladimir Mayakovsky said:

- Among Russians I feel like a Russian, among Georgians - a Georgian ...

What about fools? Suddenly, someone shouted from the hall.

“And for the first time among fools,” Mayakovsky replied instantly.

Traveling in France, Mark Twain traveled by train to the city of Dijon. The train was passing, and he asked to wake him up in time. At the same time, the writer said to the conductor:

- I sleep very soundly. When you wake me up, maybe I will scream. So ignore it and be sure to drop me off at Dijon.

When Mark Twain woke up, it was already morning and the train was approaching Paris. The writer realized that Dijon had passed and became very angry. He ran to the conductor and began to reprimand him.

“I have never been as angry as I am now!” he shouted.

"You're not as angry as the American I dropped off at Dijon last night," replied the guide.

Mark Twain, being a newspaper editor, once printed a devastating denunciation of a certain N. It contained the phrase: "Mr. N does not even deserve a spit in the face." This gentleman sued, which ordered the newspaper to publish a refutation, and Mark Twain showed himself to be a "law-abiding" citizen: in the next issue of his newspaper it was printed: "Mr. N deserves a spit in the face."

End of introductory segment.

Usually great people differ from the average layman, and not only in their famous achievements, but also in character and habits. Among these habits there are many oddities that distinguished many famous personalities. In this post - a selection of oddities of famous people.

Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov was one of the most famous Russian generals. He did not lose a single battle, and all of them were won with the numerical superiority of the enemy. Suvorov was famous for his strange antics: he went to bed at six in the evening, and woke up at two in the morning, and, upon waking up, doused himself with cold water and shouted loudly “ku-ka-re-ku!”. With all his ranks, he slept in the hay. Preferring to walk in old boots, he could easily go out to meet high officials in a sleeping cap and underwear. He also gave the signal to attack to his beloved “ku-ka-re-ku!”, And, they say, after he was promoted to field marshal, he began to jump over chairs and say: “And I jumped over this one, and through this - then!"

Often famous people were distinguished by great forgetfulness and absent-mindedness. For example, Diderot forgot the days, months, years and names of loved ones. Anatole France sometimes forgot to get a new sheet of paper or a notebook and wrote on everything that came to hand: envelopes, business cards, wrappers, receipts. But scientists are usually the most scattered.

Newton somehow received guests and, wanting to treat them, went to his office for wine. Guests are waiting, but the owner does not return. It turned out that upon entering the working room, Newton thought so deeply about his next work that he completely forgot about his friends. There is also a case when Newton, having decided to boil an egg, took a watch, noticed the time and after a couple of minutes found that he was holding an egg in his hand, and was cooking a watch. One day Newton had lunch, but did not notice it. And when by mistake he went to dine another time, he was very surprised that someone had eaten his food.

Einstein, having met his friend and, absorbed in thoughts, said: Come to me in the evening. I will also have Professor Stimson. His friend, puzzled, objected: But I am Stimson! Einstein replied: It doesn't matter, come anyway! In addition, Einstein's wife had to repeat the same thing three times before the meaning of her remarks reached the great physicist.

The father of Russian aviation, Zhukovsky, once, after talking all evening with friends in his own living room, suddenly got up, looking for his hat, and began to hurriedly say goodbye, muttering: However, I stayed up with you, it's time to go home!

The German historian Theodor Mommsen once rummaged through all his pockets to find glasses. A little girl sitting next to him handed them to him. "Thanks, little one," Mommsen said. "What's your name?" “Anna Mommsen, papa,” the girl answered.

One day, Ampere, leaving his apartment, wrote with chalk on his door: Ampere will be at home only in the evening. But he returned home in the afternoon. I read the inscription on my doors and went back, because I forgot that he himself was Ampere. Another story that was told about Ampere was this. One day, sitting in a carriage, he wrote a formula with chalk instead of a slate on the coachman's back. And he was very surprised when, having arrived at the place and got off the carriage, he saw that the formula began to move away along with the crew.

Galileo was no less absent-minded. He spent his wedding night reading a book. Noticing at last that it was already dawn, he went to the bedroom, but immediately went out and asked the servant: - Who is lying in my bed? “Your wife, sir,” replied the servant. Galileo completely forgot that he was married.

Some of the greats didn't get married at all. Now you will not surprise anyone with this, but a hundred years ago it was considered a great oddity. Voltaire, Dante, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant and Beethoven died convinced bachelors, believing that the wife would only prevent them from creating, and the servant would look after the house perfectly.

True, in Beethoven's house, the servants were powerless to maintain at least some semblance of order: sheets with symphonies and overtures were scattered throughout the office mixed with bottles and plates, and woe to the one who tried to collect them, breaking this mess! And the owner himself at this time, despite any weather jogging around the streets of the city.

The famous satirist Lafontaine also liked to take a walk. At the same time, he loudly recited the lines and rhymes that came into his bright head, waving his arms and dancing. Fortunately for him, the people then treated such personalities quite calmly, and no one called the orderlies.

The famous writer Leo Tolstoy was famous among his contemporaries not only for his works, but also for his quirks. As a count, he worked in the field on a par with the peasants. At the same time, working in the field side by side with the peasants was not an extravagant hobby for him, he sincerely loved and respected hard physical labor. Tolstoy, with pleasure and, what is important, with skill, sewed boots, which he then presented to his relatives, mowed grass and plowed the land, surprising the local peasants who were watching him and grieving his wife.

Over the years, Tolstoy was increasingly captured by spiritual quests, and he paid less and less attention to everyday life, striving for asceticism and “simplification” in almost everything. The count is engaged in hard peasant labor, sleeps on the bare floor and walks barefoot until the very cold, thus emphasizing his closeness to the people. Just like that - on a bare foot, in a belted peasant shirt, simple trousers - Ilya Repin captured him in his picture.

Lev Nikolaevich maintained physical vigor and strength of mind until the very last days. The reason for that is passionate love count to sports and all kinds of physical exercises, which, in his opinion, were obligatory, especially for those who are engaged in mental work. Walking was Tolstoy's favorite discipline; it is known that already at the fairly respectable age of sixty, he made three foot crossings from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana. In addition, the count was fond of skating, mastered cycling, horseback riding, swimming, and started every morning with gymnastics.

Already at the advanced age of 82 years, the writer decided to go wandering, leaving his estate, leaving his wife and children. In a farewell letter to his Countess Sophia, Tolstoy writes: “I can no longer live in those conditions of luxury in which I lived, and I do what old people of my age usually do: they leave worldly life to live in solitude and silence. last days own life".

And among scientists, Nikola Tesla was known as one of the most eccentric people. Tesla did not have his own house or apartment - only laboratories and land. The great inventor usually spent the night right in the laboratory or in hotels in New York. Tesla never married. According to him, a solitary lifestyle helped develop his scientific abilities.

He was terribly afraid of germs, constantly washed his hands, and in hotels he could demand up to a couple of dozen towels a day. By the way, in hotels he always checked whether the number of his apartments would be a multiple of three, otherwise he flatly refused to be settled. If a fly landed on the table during lunch, Tesla demanded that the waiters bring it all over again. In modern psychiatry, there is a special term for this kind of oddity - “misophobia”.

Tesla counted steps while walking, the volume of bowls of soup, cups of coffee and pieces of food. If he failed to do this, then the food did not give him pleasure, so he preferred to eat alone.

Having become the author of many inventions that changed the life of modern civilization, Nikola Tesla left behind even more rumors and conjectures about incredible discoveries, which for some reason never reached their publication and application.

Famous people have such an entertaining biography that you want to study it in full. Interesting facts from the life of famous people will appeal to both children and adults.

1.Napoleon captured Italy at the age of 26.

2. Time magazine named Hitler's Man of the Year.

3. Cleopatra was married to her brother.

4. Facts from the life of famous people of America confirm that Andrew Jackson, the President of the United States, considered the Earth to be flat.

5. At the wedding, Queen Victoria was presented with a piece of cheese, the diameter of which was 3 meters, and the weight was 500 kilograms.

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6. Will Churchill was born in a ladies' toilet. When there was a ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth to him there.

7. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 beans.

8. Beria had syphilis.

9. Celine Dion and Madonna are the cousins ​​of the prince's wife

10. Newton almost always fell asleep in front of the fireplace. As a result, he experienced sleep deprivation.

11. Einstein considered socks to be the most stupid thing.

12. The most loving man is the king of the island of Tonga, which is located in the Pacific Ocean. His name was Fatafehi ​​Paulah.

13. Andersen never had children, and intimate relationships too.

14. Facts from the life of famous people of Russia say that Alexander Suvorov did not lose a single battle.

15. Leo Tolstoy always worked on the field on a par with other men. And this happened despite the fact that he was a count.

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16. Nikola Tesla had a panicky fear of germs.

17. Andriana Lima, who is considered the famous Brazilian model, remained faithful before the wedding. And exactly 9 months after the wedding, her daughter was born.

18. Paul McCartney, due to his own workload, did not have time to buy an engagement ring for his chosen one.

19. Cristiano Ronaldo is the most expensive player in the history of football.

20. Jackie Chan's mother carried him for 12 months and this famous man was born with a weight of more than 5 kilograms.

21. Interesting facts about famous people provide information that Marilyn Monroe, before she became a famous model, worked at an aviation factory.

22. Brad Pitt's first job was to perform on the streets in "chicken" clothes.

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24. Marilyn Monroe's bra was sold for $14,000.

25. Hiding hair loss, Julius Caesar put a wreath of laurel on his head.

26. Elizabeth the First taxed men who had beards.

27. More than 500 million dollars for his own life, John Rockefeller gave away to charity.

28. Winston Churchill smoked at least 15 cigars a day.

29. King Solomon had about 700 wives and 100 mistresses.

30. Moart has never been to school.

31. Sigmund Freud had a panic rhinestone number 62.

32. Louis Pasteur was the sponsor of the beer factory.

33. Alexander the Great knew about 30,000 of his own soldiers by sight.

3 4. Approximately 3,000 outfits were worn by Queen Elizabeth.

35. Voltaire's body was stolen from the grave.

36. The Dutch artist Van Gogh had bouts of insanity. In one of them he cut off his ear.

37. Interesting facts from the life of famous people say that Yuri Gagarin wrote a farewell letter to his wife before flying into space, because he did not know how the expedition would end.

38. Luciano Pavarotti was fond of football.

39. Genghis Khan had a panic fear of death. And this is despite his cruelty towards enemies.

40. When Alla Pugacheva was born, cancer was found on her throat. It was removed immediately.

41. Sylvester Stallone was often beaten during his school years.

42. Pushkin participated in duels more than 90 times.

43. Saddam Hussein wrote the Koran with his own blood.

44. Charlie Chaplin's body was stolen 3 months later by porters who demanded a ransom.

45. When Vladimir Putin worked for the KGB, his code name was "mol".

46. ​​The largest fee in the amount of $ 20,000 was first received by Julia Roberts.

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47. All shoes for Paris Hillton were made to order, because she has a large foot size and it is difficult to find the right shoes.

48. Whoopi Goldberg, who is considered an actress, has no eyebrows.

49. Rihanna didn't even finish school.

50. Beethoven doused himself with ice water in order to raise his mental tone.

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1. Napoleon was 26 years old when he captured Italy.

2. Baghdad University appropriated Uday - the eldest son of Saddam Hussein - degree the doctors political science. Although he did not even have a secondary education. His dissertation was titled “The Decline of American Power by 2016.”
3. In 1938, Time magazine named Hitler "Person of the Year."
4. During his service in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname "Moth".
5. Hitler was a vegetarian.
6. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra tested the effectiveness of her poisons by forcing her slaves to take them.
7. Cleopatra married her sibling- Ptolemy.
8. Cleopatra was not an Egyptian. She had Macedonian, Iranian and Greek roots.
9. Lafayette became a general in the US Army at 19. His full name sounds like this: Mary Joseph Paul Yves Rocher Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
10. The Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in the 50s, Alexei Popov, was a well-known swindler.
11. The Mongol conqueror Timur (1336-1405) played something like polo with the skulls of the people he killed. He created a pyramid of their severed heads 9 meters high.
12. At the time of Lenin's death, his brain was only a quarter of its normal size.
13. Napoleon was not born in France, but on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were Italian and they had eight children.
14. The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon.
15. One of Napoleon's drinking bowls was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
16. The founder of the theory of communism Karl Marx has never been to Russia.
17. The first American Chief Justice, John Jay, bought slaves to free them.
18. The first person in history to be hit by a train was British MP William Huskinson.
19. The ancestors of Winston Churchill on the maternal side were ... Indians.
20. US President Andrew Jackson believed the Earth was flat.
21. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on men's beards. However, Peter the Great did not favor bearded men either.
22. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar ordered the execution of her subjects if they appeared to her in dreams without her permission.
23. Queen Victoria was presented with a piece of cheese with a diameter of 3 meters and a weight of 500 kilograms at the wedding.
24. King Henry VIII of England executed two of his six wives.
25. President of Uganda and one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, Idi Amin, served in the British Army before coming to power.
26. British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston died in 1865 on a pool table where he was making love to his servants.
27. At the court of the King of Spain, Alfonso, there was a special position - a hymnal. The fact is that the king did not have any musical ear, and he himself could not distinguish the hymn from other music. The hymnal had to warn the king when the national anthem was played.
28. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Skorus.
29. The Roman emperor Nero forced his teacher philosopher Seneca to commit suicide.
30. The height of Peter the Great was approximately 213 cm. Despite the fact that in those days the average height of men was significantly lower than today.
31. Sir Winston Churchill smoked no more than 15 cigars a day.
32. Tom Cruise at the age of 14 went to study at the seminary to become a priest, but left it after a year.
33. The French king Louis XIV had 413 beds.
34. The Israeli king Solomon had about 700 wives and several thousand mistresses.
35. King Louis XIV of France, known as the "Sun King", had over 400 beds.
36. Napoleon had ailurophobia - fear of cats.
37. Winston Churchill was born in the women's room of the Blenheim family castle. During the ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth.
38. Physicist and owner Nobel Prize Niels Bohr and his brother the famous mathematician Harald Bohr were football players. At the same time, Harald was a member of the Danish national team and even took second place at the 1905 Olympics.
39. The phrase “The king is dead, long live the king” was uttered by Catherine de Medici when she learned about the death of her son Charles IX.
40. The Swedish King Charles VII, who was killed in 1167, was the first king of the state with the name Charles! Charles I, II, III, IV, V and VI never existed, and it is not clear where the prefix "seventh" came from. A couple of centuries later, King Charles VIII (1448-1457) appeared in Sweden.
41. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession.
42. Attila the Barbarian died in 453 on his wedding night immediately after the wedding.
43. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 grains.
44. The British Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who ruled Britain for 64 years, spoke English with an accent. She had German roots.
45. In 1357, a dead woman was crowned Queen of Portugal. She became Princess Inés de Castro, the second wife of Pedro I. 2 years before, her father-in-law, Alfonso "Proud", who hated her for being a commoner, secretly ordered his people to kill her and her children. When Pedro became king, he ordered the removal of Inés' body from the grave and forced the nobility to recognize her as Queen of Portugal.
46. ​​In 1849, Senator David Atchison became President of the United States for only 1 day, and most that day he… overslept.
47. The Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassim Ismail (who lived in the 10th century) never parted with his library. If he went somewhere, the library “followed” him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by 400 camels. Moreover, books (together with camels) were located in alphabetical order.
48. The great Genghis Khan died while having sex.
49. Hannibal died in 183 BC. e. taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
50. Hans-Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word without errors.
51. Henry IV often flogged his son, the future Louis XIII.
52. The Danish king Frederick IV was a bigamist. He married twice while his wife Queen Louise was alive. His first lover died in childbirth, his second lover was only queen for 19 days after the death of Queen Louise. All the children from both of his mistresses either died at birth or in infancy, as he believed for his sinful life. He later became extremely religious.
53. Jack the Ripper, the most notorious killer 19th century, committed his crimes always on weekends.
54. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book " healthy eating and many books about proper nutrition died of malnutrition.
55. Once the merchant Krasnobryukhov turned to Alexander I with a request to change his surname, and he allowed him to be called ... Sinebryukhov. After that, the merchant went to Finland with grief and founded the famous Koff brewing company there.
56. When the Russian Queen Elizabeth I died in 1762, more than 15,000 dresses were found in her wardrobe.
57. Mozart started composing music at the age of 3.
58. There is not a single living descendant of William Shakespeare left on Earth.
59. Before composing music, Beethoven poured a bucket of cold water on his head, believing that it stimulated the brain.
60. Thomas Edison wrote 40,000 pages while designing the light bulb.
61. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Felix Mendelssohn wrote at the age of 17. It became his most famous work.
62. Beria suffered from syphilis.
63. More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach became organists.
64. In the ZZ Top group, only one member does not have a beard. And his name is Beard, which in English means ... "beard".
65. Since 1932, only Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have not been elected to the United States for a second term as president.
66. Ilf and Petrov discarded ideas that came to both minds at once - in order to avoid clichés.
67. When Beethoven wrote the famous Ninth Symphony, he was completely deaf.
68. Composer Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of the German composer Richard Wagner.
69. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
70. Writer Rudyard Kipling couldn't write in ink unless it was black.
71. Writer Charles Dickens wrote with his face to the north. He also always slept with his head to the north.
72. The Roman emperor Commodus gathered dwarfs, cripples and freaks from all over the Roman Empire to arrange fights between them in the Colosseum.
73. The Roman emperor Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his growing baldness.
74. Russian composer Alexander Borodin was also a well-known chemist in St. Petersburg.
75. The smallest of the American presidents is James Madison (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln is the tallest (1.93 m).
76. The shortest British monarch is Charles I. His height was 4 feet 9 inches (about 140 cm). After his head was cut off, his height became even smaller.
77. The body of Voltaire, who died in 1778, was stolen from the grave and was never found. The loss was discovered in 1864.
78. Balzac has a whole book dedicated to ... a tie.
79. The British Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) had about 3,000 outfits.
80. American Pete Ruff knocks an apple off his own head with a boomerang.
81. American industrial tycoon and billionaire John Rockefeller donated over $550 million. to various foundations and institutions.
82. American President Benjamin Franklin advocated that the national bird of America was the turkey.
83. In 1856, the English chemist William Perkin, while trying to obtain quinine from aniline, invented the first artificial dye, mauveine.
84. In the village of Lobovskoye, Saratov Region. there lives a beekeeper who is able to withstand 40 hours in a hive with bees completely naked.
85. In the period from 1952 - 1966, 5 children were born in the family of Ralph and Carolyn Cummins and all of them have a birthday on February 20th.
86. Galileo Galilei was the first person to propose using a pendulum to measure time.
87. Hannibal died in 183 BC after taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
88. Grover Cleveland was the only US president to marry in the White House.
89. James Madison was the smallest of the American presidents (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln was the tallest (1.93 m).
90. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book Healthy Eating and many books on proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
91. For 35 years, Mozart created over 600 works. But after his death, the widow did not have money for a separate place in the cemetery
92. Famous 19th century bullfighter Lagarijo (born Rafael Molina) killed 4867 bulls.
93. When the German physicist A. Einstein died, his last words left with him. Nurse, former nearby did not understand German.
94. The maximum number of crossword puzzles was Andrian Bell. From January 1930 to 1980 he sent 4,520 crossword puzzles to The Times.
95. Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was rescued from a car accident by one Edwin Booth. As it turns out, Edwin is the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The father tried to kill the father, and their children saved each other
96. The first American president to use the telephone was James Garfield.
97. Concept a negative number was first introduced by the Italian merchant Pisano in 1202, denoting his debts and losses.
98. The world's largest private collection of meteorites belongs to the American Robert Haag - from the age of 12 he collected 2 tons of heavenly stones.
99. Thomas Edison had a collection of birds in 5000 copies.
100. Frenchmen Jeanne Louise and Guy Bruty made a crossword puzzle on a sheet of paper 5 m long and 3 m wide, from 18 thousand words and 50 thousand cells.
101. Shakespeare mentioned roses more than 50 times in his poems.
102. Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, was the only president to make his own clothes.
103. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day - February 12, 1809. The scientist lived almost 20 years longer than the politician.
104. Bill Clinton sent two emails during his entire presidency, one of which was a test to check that everything was working properly. I wonder who the second letter was to? Maybe Monica?
105. In 1759, Arthur Guinness leased St. Gate's brewery for 9,000 years at a rent of £45 a year. The famous Guinness beer was brewed there.
106. In 1981, Deborah Ann Fontan, Miss NY, was disqualified for excessive use of cotton stuffing in a swimsuit competition
107. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting - he preferred to bow
108. The only president of the United States, concurrently being the chairman of any union - Ronald Reagan, who heads the Screen Actors Guild
109. If you remember a little school course physicists, you know that there is a Richter temperature scale. So this same Charles Richter was a malicious nudist, because of which his wife left him
110. If you read the works of the writer Stephen King, you should notice that most of the actions of his stories take place in Maine. Paradoxically, this state has the lowest crime rate in the United States.
111. The founder of psychoanalysis has a lot of oddities. Freud was terrified of the number 62. He refused to book a hotel room with more than 62 rooms for fear of accidentally getting a room with the number 62. He used cocaine, like many of his contemporaries.
112. The famous entrepreneur Henry Ford preferred to hire people with physical disabilities - among the workers of his factories in 1919, there was one disabled person for four healthy people.
113. Research Louis Pasteur sponsored a beer factory. They also paid him a ticket to an international congress. When Pasteur was given the floor at the congress, the first thing he did was to hang advertising posters with beer on the stage. And he began his speech with the words that this beer is the best. And then he got down to business.
114. Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins ​​of Prince Charles's wife, Camilla
115. The father of the famous comedian Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun, etc.) served as a policeman in Canada, and his brother worked in the Canadian Parliament
116. The father of tennis player Andre Agassi represented Iran at Olympic Games 1948 and 1952. He was... a boxer