Thursday, May 14, 2015

A Little Ego

   Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
   Napoleon conducted his battle plans in a sandbox.
   Napoleon favored mathematicians and physical scientists but excluded humanists from his circle, believing them to be troublemakers.
   Napoleon had his servants wear his boots to break them in before he wore them.
   This explains a lot.
   Napoleon had only one testicle.
   Adolph Hitler was Time's Man Of The Year in 1938.
   Hitler's great-great-grandmother was a Jewish maid.
   Hitler had planned to change the name of Berlin to Germania.
   Hitler refused to shake Jesse Owens's hand at the 1936 Olympics because he was black.
   Hitler was claustrophobic. The elevator leading to his eagles' nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.
   Hitler had one testicle.
   Al Capone's famous scars (which earned him the nickname "Scarface") were from an attack. The brother of a girl he had insulted attacked him with a knife, leaving him with three distinctive scars.
   Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. His brother was a town sheriff.
   While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate 85.
   Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790 and 1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth called a ruhmal.
   Countess Erzsebet Bathory Of Hungary, holds the most murders by a woman, 610.
   Mass murderer Charlie Manson recorded a music demo with the Beach Boys.
   Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.
   Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940s.
   Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an ice pick.
   Lee Harvey Oswald's body tag was auctioned off for $6,600.
   Josef Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm was noticeably shorter than his right arm.
   Attila the Hun was a dwarf.
   Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles III of Naples, and the Pasha Hussain were all shorter than three and a half feet tall.