Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon." Buzz was the second man to step onto the Moon in 1969.
Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary.
Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means "apple sauce" in Japanese.
At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour.
Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial.
A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.
Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna.
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.
After the death of the genius, Albert Einstein, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
Albert Einstein was cremated and his ashes were spread over a river located in New Jersey.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
Beethoven used to take hay baths to remedy the swelling he used to get in his legs.
