Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by admin in Did you Know
• Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.
| • The youngest US president to be inaugurated was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42 and the oldest was Ronald Reagan at 69 years. (Barack Obama was 47). |
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| • The Dalai Lama was found by Tibetan monks when he was two years old. The monks tested the boy to see if he was the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama. He passed the tests and had physical traits that the monks were looking for such as moles in certain places and long ears. At two, he was renamed Tenzin Gyatso, took the throne at age four and became a monk at age six. |
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| • The crown Prince Luis Filipe of Portugal was technically King of Portugal (Dom Luis III) for about 20 minutes. He was killed at the same time as his father by a bullet which severed his carotid artery in the streets of Lisbon on 1 February 1908. |
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| • The youngest monarch in modern times was King Mswati III of Swaziland who was crowned on 25 April 1986 aged 18 years six days. |
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| • England’s Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all 17 of her children during her reign… |
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| • Morarji Ranchhodji Desai of India was the oldest Prime Minister to be appointed at 81 in 1977. |
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| • To deter unwanted flies, King Pepi II of Egypt always kept a supply of naked slaves handy, their bodies smeared with honey. |
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| • King Solomon of Israel had about 700 wives as well as hundreds of mistresses. |
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| • Louis XIV of France has the longest reign recorded in Europe: 72 years, three months, 18 days. He also hated washing and took only three baths in his entire adult life. But he loved beds and owned 413 of them as well as more than 1000 wigs |
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| • Henry VIII went for a game of tennis while his wife, Anne Boleyn, was being beheaded. |
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| • Murad IV, who ruled Turkey in the 17th century, found a highly effective way of demonstrating that smoking can seriously damage your health. He ordered that anyone caught smoking be executed on the spot as a deterrent to others. He once had a party of female picnickers drowned because they were making too much noise. |
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| • Ivan the Terrible of Russia was so pleased with the newly built Moscow church of St Basil that he blinded the two architects so that they would never be able to come up with anything better. |
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