| The real name of the Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III. |
| When Albert Einstein left Germany in 1933, the Nazis put a price of 20,000 marks on his head. |
| Napoleon's christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte. He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, he hated the French. |
| The first company that Bill Gates ever ran created machines that would record the number of cars passing a given point on a street. |
| Mother Teresa's real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu |
| Abraham Lincoln held a liquor license and operated several taverns |
| The youngest Pope was 11 years old |
| Benjamin Franklin was America's first newspaper cartoonist |
| Alexander the Great was an epileptic |
| Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined |