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1)
General Hajianestis of Greece, who led his country during the 1921 war with Turkey, often refused to get out of bed because he thought his legs were made out of sugar and so brittle that they would collapse.

2)
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, from Mexico, arranged for his amputated leg to be given a state funeral after he was wounded during a battle with the French in 1838.
The leg was solemnly paraded through the streets of Mexico City to the accompaniment of military bands and laid to rest in a national shrine.

3)
Napoleon Bonaparte was known as a fearless soldier but he was terrified of cats.

4)
Adolf Hitler was known to be fascinated by hands. He had a collection of drawings and paintings of the hands of famous people and he liked to show his guests how closely his hands resembled those of Frederick the Great, one of his heroes.
Hitler's square moustache was also believed to be a tribute to the silent movie star Charlie Chaplin, who was his favourite comedian.

5)
Ho Chi Minh, the North Vietnamese President once worked as a pastry assistant in the kitchens of the Carlton Hotel in London.

6)
The wife of US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, carried a revolver.

7)
Alexander the Great once ordered his entire army to have their head and faces shaved because he thought that the long hair and beards made it easy for the enemy to grab and cut off his soldiers heads.

8)
William Hague, ex leader of the Conservative Party in England is colour blind.

9)
Napoleon drew his battle plans in a sandpit.

10)
Adolf Hitler was voted 'Man of the year' in the 1938 edition of Time magazine.

11)
Robespierre, the man who was responsible for sending thousands of people to the guillotine during the French revolution was actually squeamish and couldn't stand the sight of blood.

12)
US President John F. Kennedy could read 4 newspapers from the first to the last page in 20 minutes.

13)
Chinese leader, Mao Tse-Tung never brushed his teeth, his reason being tigers never brush their teeth either.

14)
US President Abraham Lincoln, was always convinced that he was illegitimate and always defended people who were born outside marriage.
It was only after his death that it was discovered he was legitimate after all.

15)
When US President, Lyndon B. Johnson was 15 years old he ran away from home and didn't go back for two years.

16)
Joseph Stalin, the leader of Russia, had webbed toes on his left foot.

17)
Saddam Hussein once unsuccessfully attempted to sue a French magazine after they branded him a cretin, monster and a pathetic simpleton. Later the same magazine printed that the reason that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait was because his penis was too small.

18)
Viscount Palmerston, the Victorian Prime Minister of England, was once cited as a correspondent at the age of 79.

19)
Napoleon I, of France, had various parts of his body removed and collected after his death. His stomach ended up in a pepper pot and his shrivelled up penis went on sale in a London auction house, but failed to reach it's reserve price.

20)
President John F. Kennedy, of the USA, was buried without his brain. It had been mislaid during the autopsy.

21)
In Germany, during Hitler's reign, all members of the SS had their blood types tattooed on their armpits.

22)
Before World War Two there were 22 Hitler's listed in the New York phone book, but none after.

23)
In Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1861, the entire city was left without any police officers after Mayor, John Wentworth, fired the entire police department.

24)
During a New Years Day gathering at the White House, President Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513 people in one day.

25)
Although the US state of Ohio is listed as the 17th state it is technically the 47th. Until the 7th August 1953, Congress had actually forgotten to vote on a formal resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

26)
Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the USA, wanted the national bird of America to be the turkey rather than the eagle. He always considered the eagle to be a bird of bad moral character.

27)
Russia sold Alaska to the United States for just two cents an acre.

28)
US President William Howard Taft was so fat that he once got stuck in his bathtub at the White House. He later ordered another one, large enough to hold four people.

29)
US General Dwight D Eisenhower's parents were both pacifists.

30)
There are 17 miles of corridors in the Pentagon.

31)
US President Richard Nixon has received more votes than any other person in US history.

32)
US President Lyndon B. Johnson's family all had the same initials, LBJ. His wife was Lady Bird Johnson, his children were Linda Bird Johnson and Lucy Baines Johnson and even his dog's name was Little Beagle Johnson.

33)
In 1928, Charles King, President of Liberia, won the general election by 600,000 votes although at that time there were only 15,000 registered voters.

34)
There were once three Presidents in Mexico in one day.

35)
In Ecuador a village once voted a foot deodorant as mayor of their village after posters were put up around the town saying "Vote for any candidate, but if you want well-being and hygiene, vote for Pulvapies!" Pulvapies was the deodorant!

36)
The bunker where German dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide is now a car park.

37)
The government in Liechtenstein once held a referendum to decide where a public toilet should be situated.

38)
Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, used to constantly touch his testicles to ward off the evil eye.

39)
The dome of Monticello, once the home of US President Thomas Jefferson conceals a billiard room. In Jefferson's day billiards were against the law in Virginia.

40)
Although US President, George Washington oversaw the building of The White House, he never actually lived there.

41)
In Washington DC, USA, it is illegal to have a building taller than the Capitol building.

42)
C.W. McCall, who had a hit with "Convoy" in 1976 went on to become the Mayor of Ouray, Colorado.

43)
President Fidel Castro, of Cuba, was once voted the best schoolboy athlete in 1944. He had a trial for the Washington Senators baseball team but was turned down.

44)
British Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, once played first class cricket for Middlesex.

45)
Adolf Hitler was a big fan of Sherlock Holmes. When the allied forces reached his bunker in 1945 they found just two films, both of which were Sherlock Holmes movies.

46)
German dictator Adolf Hitler was very strict when it came to family values. During his years of power he stipulated that any female character in a German film who broke up a marriage must die before the closing credits.

47)
US President Gerald Ford and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have both appeared on the US soap "Dynasty".

48)
German Nazi Rudolf Hess was a huge fan of the US soap "Dynasty".

49)
US President Eisenhower detested cats so much that he ordered his groundsmen to kill any that trespassed on his land.

50)
Alexander the Great, of Macedon, was placed in a big jar of honey when he died, so that he would not rot. Honey is actually the only food that does not spoil.

51)
Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of US President Theodore Roosevelt ate chocolate covered garlic balls every morning with her breakfast because her doctor told her that this would improve her memory.

52)
British Prime Minister William Pitt the younger was in the habit of drinking six bottles of port, two bottles of Madeira and a half bottle of claret everyday. He would often appear in the House Of Commons drunk and would often disappear behind the speakers chair in mid debate and throw up.

53)
Ten Percent of the Russian Government's income come's directly from the sale of Vodka.

54)
British Prime Minister William Gladstone always used to fill his stoneware hot water bottle with tea. He never usually got more than 4 hours sleep and when he woke up the tea would be still warm enough to drink.

55)
Hitler's personal Mercedes-Benz car's were all so heavily armoured that they could only do three miles to the gallon.

56)
In Bolivia, government election candidate, Carlos Bregara, received 34 severed penis's through the post accompanied by notes saying "Your a prick, so here's one to keep you company". Although most of the severed penis's were animal, some were actually human.
It was not surprising when he withdrew from the election.

57)
After Russian President, Khruschev, visited the USA, he was so impressed by the refrigerators there that he instructed the massive Sigma-Gaz works to begin producing a Russian version of them.
The resulting SG1002 fridge used so much electricity however that no matter where it was installed it would always blow a fuse.
Because the management at Sigma-Gaz were wary of telling anyone, these useless monstrosities were made for years.

58)
In Iraq, in July 1997, Uday Hussein, the evil son of Saddam Hussein and leader of the Iraqi Soccer Federation, ordered that the entire Iraqi National Team be caned on their backs and their feet after they lost twice to Kazakhstan resulting in Iraq failing to qualify for the 1998 World Cup.

59)
In Ecuador, President Abdala Bucaram was deposed by public demand after he embezzled 28 million US dollars.
Upon being sacked, Bucaram immediately challenged his successor to a street fight.
On a campaign trail he once jumped out of a helicopter dressed up as batman and shouted, "I do whatever the hell I like!"
He now lives in Panama.

60)
Ex-President Saddam Hussein, of Iraq, once sued a magazine after they they called him "A cretin, monster and pathetic simpleton!"
He has also been accused of being impotent "And cannot function as a man!" which in the Arab world is humiliating.

61)
In Amsterdam, Holland, Mr. Gerrit Zalm, the country's Finance Minister, was visiting the city's Stock Exchange to launch the new Euro currency when two protestors suddenly appeared and threw pies all over him.
Although covered in crumbs and cream, Zalm carried on with his engagement as though nothing had happened!

62)
US President Bill Clinton never knew his father.

63)
The father of British politician Gordon Brown, was a clergyman.

64)
Adolf Hitler had an unhealthy fixation with his mother.

65)
Of all the US presidents there have been not one of them has died in the month of May.

66)
When Bill Clinton was studying at Oxford University in England it was another man who was voted "The American most likely to succeed."

67)
During his lifetime British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill smoked about 300,000 cigars!

68)
Politicians Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, French President Mitterrand, Lech Walesa and Rudolph Giuliani were all given honorary knighthoods by the Queen of England but not one of them can put the title "Sir" before their names because they are not British citizens.

69)
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was made an honorary member of the Dennis the Menace fan club.

70)
US President George Washington used to carry a portable sundial for telling the time.

71)
Originally the British Tories were a band of Irish outlaws.

72)
The highest concentration of rats in the whole of London are beneath the Houses of Parliament.

73)
US President Ronald Reagan first met his wife Nancy when she asked him to remove her name from a list of communist sympathisers.

74)
Nicotine is named after the 16th century French Ambassador to Portugal who brought tobacco back home with him.

75)
During the 1818 fourth of July US independence day celebrations the event had to be temporarily cancelled when it was hit by a sudden unexpected snowstorm.

76)
US President Truman's mother-in-law lived with him and his wife for 33 years!
During that entire time they never got on together and she never tired of telling him how much better the other candidates would have been at the job.

77)
US President George Washington owned his own slaves.

78)
Winston Churchill always slept with his dog on his bed.

79)
Muhatma Gandhi of India suffered terribly from constipation.

80)
US President George Washington grew marijuana on his plantation.

81)
US President George Washington refused a regular salary and instead worked for expenses only when he was Commander in Chief of the the American forces during the American War of Independence.
This made him a huge amount of money, totalling over $400,000 dollars!
When he was eventually offered the Presidency of the United States he volunteered to work for expenses again but Congress had learnt it's lessons from the past and insisted that he be given a fixed salary.

82)
US President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to make an official tour of the USA in a car.

83)
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was once involved in a film featuring 19 papier mache elephants.

84)
Although Adolf Hitler banned Charlie Chaplin's film ' The Great Dictator' he just could not resist getting his hands on an illegal copy and even watched it twice.

85)
French President Charles De Gaulle was a firm believer in horoscopes after he was told at an early age that he would become leader of his country.

86)
US Governor Pinchot was so angry when a dog killed his pet cat that he had it sentenced to life imprisonment.
The dog served six years.

87)
The British Prime Minister, The Earl of Rosebery, resigned because the worry of the job gave him terrible insomnia.

88)
Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung once worked as a librarian.

89)
President Brezhnev of Russia was so fond of cars that US President Richard Nixon gave him three as a gift.

90)
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was born in a ladies cloakroom.

91)
In 1869 the Governor of Burgos, Spain, was stabbed to death in a cathedral, during mass, by a group of priests!

92)
President Fidel Castro of Cuba was almost the victim of a bizarre C.I.A. plot to make his beard fall out!
C.I.A. scientists developed a powder that, if applied to his shoes, would have had the desired effect.
The plan didn't work though.

93)
President Mussolini of Italy was once expelled from school after he stabbed a fellow pupil in the arse!

94)
US Senator Edward Kennedy was once suspended from Harvard College after he was caught cheating during his exams.

95)
US President Thomas Jefferson was the inventor of the swivel chair.

96)
In British politics there is no upper age limit for MP's.

97)
Eva Peron (Evita) once had an affair with billionaire Aristotle Onassis.

98)
In a poll taken at the famous Madame Tussauds wax museum in London in 1972/1973 it was found that people hated the waxwork of US President Richard Nixon more than Adolf Hitler.

99)
US President Jimmy Carter was once an honorary member of the Errol Flynn fan club.

100)
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffered so badly from depression that he would never stand at the edge of railway platforms just in case he threw himself in front of a train.

101)
Oliver Cromwell abolished Christmas in 1649 and declared it to be a normal working day. Anybody who was caught celebrating was arrested.

102)
US President Herbert Hoover and his wife both spoke fluent Chinese. He was also the very first President to have a telephone in the White House.

103)
US President Calvin Coolidge always insisted that he be driven no faster than 16 miles per hour when he was a passenger in a car.

104)
US President Andrew Jackson once killed a man in a duel after his wife had been insulted.

105)
US President Ulysses S. Grant was totally tone deaf. He once said "I know only two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't!"

106)
US President George Washington used to wear false teeth that were made from wood.

107)
US President James Garfield could write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other hand at the same time.

108)
US President Jimmy Carter could read so quickly that when he was tested he was found to have 95% comprehension at a reading rate of 2,000 words per minute.

109)
US President Ronald Reagan was the first President to have been divorced.

110)
US President George Bush Snr was nicknamed "Fatty Mcgee Mcgaw" by his father when he was a chubby toddler.

111)
US President James Buchanan is the first and only bachelor to have become President. He also suffered from a nervous twitch that would make his head jerk quite often.

112)
US President Rutherford Hayes suffered from a weird phobia. The fear of going insane.

113)
US President Theodore Roosevelt was a master of the martial art 'Jujitsu'.

114)
US President Calvin Coolidge was famous for being a man of little words.
Once at a dinner party a female guest told him that her father had bet her she would not be able to get more than two words out of the President.
Calvin replied "You Lose!". These were the only words he spoke to her.

115)
US President Richard Nixon is related to King Edward III of England.

116)
British politician Lord Dennis Healey served as a major during World War II and was actually the beachmaster during the Anzio landings in Italy. Not only was he mentioned in dispatches but he also received a military MBE.

117)
US President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea, was named after a song called "Chelsea Morning".

118)
British Conservative M.P. Michael Portillo once appeared in a TV ad for Ribena Fruit Juice when he was a child.