Facts in category: People
| Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. |
| Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice." |
| Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd." |
| David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. |
| Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono. |
| Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." |
| Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight. |
| Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings. |
| Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement." |
| Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute. |
| Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. |
| Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard. |
| About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. |
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