[ChatMasti] Some facts!!!!!

Hi,

 

• Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
   
• Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
  
• In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
  
• Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen. 
   
• Fable writer Aesop, who married/divorced at least fifty women, was fond of nontraditional unions. He wed his daughter, his sister and his own mother.
  
• While trying to set a record as the world's heaviest hang glider pilot, wrestler Andre the Giant crashed so violently that he lost his sense of smell.
  
• Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, had musophobia, which is the fear of mice.
  
• 21 badges must be earned to become an Eagle Scout (12 from a mandatory list). The "First Aid" merit badge always been one of the mandatory.
  
• Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
  
• Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister
  
• While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam. 
  
• Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
  
• The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

• According to anti-slavery groups, there are more slaves today then there has ever been in the past.
   
• Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom. 
  
• Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938. 
   
• Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton. 
  
• Julie Nixon, daughter of Richard Nixon married David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight Eisenhower. 
   
• French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon. 
  
• Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament. 
   
• The founder of JC Penny had the middle name of Cash. 
  
• 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.
  
• After the death of the genius, Albert Einstein, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
  
• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
  
• Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.
  
• Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
  
• Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.

Thank you,
Regards,
Anand H Jethwani.

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