Interesting facts about celebrities

We will talk not only about celebrities, but more significant persons, affects the fate of entire nations who committed revolutionary discoveries and literally "overgrown" with all sorts of legends.

Simon Bolivar is the only person in the world whose name is in the names of two sovereign states: Bolivia and Venezuela (the full name of the country - the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela).





During the First World War, sixteen Walt Disney went to Canada to try to get into the army, but in the end, was the only participant of the Red Cross in Europe.



Former bassist «Rolling Stones», Bill Wyman, met thirteen Mandy Smith, when he was forty-seven years. They were married six years later, in 1989, and divorced two years later. Shortly after the divorce, thirty son Bill, Stephen, married Mandy Smith's mother, Patsy, whose age was at that time - forty-six.



Adolf Hitler was a man of the year in 1938, according to the magazine «Time».



Bugs Bunny cartoon characters became second, received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. The first was Mickey Mouse.



Alphonse Capone's older brother was a policeman.



In 1911, the year Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects in the theft of the painting "Mona Lisa."



Saddam Hussein was the Koran, which was written with his own blood. To this end, it regularly came to the nurse and calligrapher.



Scottish King James IV was an amateur dentist and his subjects pay for the opportunity to treat their teeth.



Three months after the death of Charlie Chaplin's body was stolen by two Swiss, with the purpose of ransom from his family. After another three months, extortionists arrested and the body comedian poured in concrete to prevent repeated attempts.



The longest royal dynasty - the Japanese. Emperor Akihito is the 125th descendant of his family.



Knowing that John F. Kennedy very upset that Belka and Strelka the first animals became astronauts, not their US counterparts, Nikita Khrushchev gave the US president's wife puppy arrows.



Jim Henson's Kermit made his first from his mother's coat, and his eyes were balls for table tennis.



Bluetooth was named after Harald Bluetooth, king, united the nations Denmark and Norway.



Cleopatra, initially, was married to his younger brother, Ptolemy XII.



Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones lived in a college in the same room.



Ty Cobb was the first millionaire baseball player.



Albert Einstein was offered to run for president of Israel.

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