Can somebody give me any unusual historical trivia?

Question: Can somebody give me any unusual historical trivia!?

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After being killed during the celebrated Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Horatio Nelson was put into a large barrel of brandy to preserve his body during the voyage back to England!. When the ship arrived back home Lord Nelson was removed from the barrel and the crew celebrated his achievements by drinking the remaining brandy! Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!Www@QuestionHome@Com

1!. Adolf Hitler was a non-smoker [good for him, yet the rest of him was bad] also was a fan of Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"!.
2!. John F!. Kennedy loved b-type of movies like "Hercules vs Spartans' with George Reeves and "The Attack of the Crab Monsters"!. Not the "fancy" European movies Jackeline, wife, loved like Fellini!. also Kennedy really wanted to be a writer not a politician!. But his father had other ideas!.
3!. Fidel Castro almost got a contract to play big league baseball in 1945!. His father told him to stick with being a lawyer and politics!.
4!. Hermann Goering was a "Little Rascals" short movies fan!. Loved "Buckwheat" [ironically he was Black], "Spanky" and 'Alfalfa" [and he was!.!.!.Jewish! Ironic!]
5!. Cary Grant was asked once to run for politics as a conservative republican!. Refused because he was afraid of losing those fans who were not conservative republicans!. Reagan was chosen!.
6!. Josef Stalin was crazy watching "Looney Tunes" cartoons ["What's up doc!?"] and "The Three Stooges"!.
7!. Hermann Goering had a nephew, son of a brother who emigrated to USA in 1909, who, ironically, was an officer in the USA Amy Air Force and participated as a co-pilot in B-17 bombings of Nazi Germany! He was known as Colonel Henry Goering
8!. Johnny Weismuller is known for having smashed a cigarette, he was a non-smoker too like Hitler, from none other than Bette Davis the actress in a reception in his Hollywood mansion in the 1940s!. Nobody had dare since to do that to the legendary actress except Weismuller, better known as "Tarzan" and "Jungle Jim"!. He hated smoking!.
9!. Lady Diana was a far away relative of Cary Grant, the actor!. also from the Kennedys!.
10!. Humphrey Bogart's mother was an artist!. Close friend of writer O!. Henry!. And the Gelber's baby could be him but nobody knows the truth!.
11!. Joan Crawford was known to hate wire clothes hangers and was abusive to children!. And may have gotten "fresh" with several young actresses including legendary Deana Durbin and Shirley Temple, while they were teenagers ["statutory rape", don't do it]!. She was known as a nymphomaniac person!. Not sure of this one!.
12!. Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre was an avid comic strip reader!. Loved "Prince Valiant"!.
13!. Israel's favorite dish is the "falafel", and is not Jewish but Palestinian Arabic!.
14!. Gamal Abdel Nasser was a "Laurel and Hardy" fan!.
15!. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who created the atomic bomb in the Manhattan project, was a ballet fan, loved Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" and "Swann Lake"!. also had a brother, Jeb Oppenheimer, writer and comedian producer!. Wrote gags for Groucho Marx, friend of George Burns the comedian, and Moe Howard, the "boss" of the 'The Three Stooges"!. also helped Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball produced "I Love Lucy", 1950s tv show!. Ironic!.
16!. F!.D!. Roosevelt almost dropped out of the private school and tried to enlist in the Army and go to fight the Spanish American War of 1898, as a teenager!. Thank goodness his mother found out!. History would have been different!.
17!. Winston Churchill was known as a bad student and was rejected by Eton college in 1890!.
18!. Ludwig van Beethoven almost came to commit suicide!. Thanks goodness he didn't do it!.
19!. Johnny Torrio, gangster who helped Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel, donated his money, when he died in 1957, to none other than the New York City Police's benevolent association for their pensions and medical expenses! Of course after his family!. He was ironically decent and quiet despite being an underworld gansgter!.
20!. Alfred Hitchcock, movie director, hated guns, violence, wars, deslike military and policemen, was cynical with politicians, and hated arrogant and argumentative people!. He was rather quiet and simple himself!.
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Teddy Roosevelt's first wife and mother died on the same day, in the same house!. The day was Valentines Day, 1884

The greatest maritime disaster in the US is almost unknown today!. The steamboat 'Sultana' blew up on the Mississippi killing 1,800 of the 2,200 people on board!. Since it happened so soon after the end of the Civil War and the assassination of Lincoln, the 'Sultana' received very little press coverage at the time or since!.

Winston Churchill was almost killed in a car accident in New York City on 13 Dec!. 1931!. How history would have been different!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

George Bush's mother's maiden name is Pierce!. She was a direct descendent of 14th president Franklin Pierce, who many people credit as one of the worst presidents (he even got a DUI in his horse and carriage because he ran over an old lady!.)!.!.!.not trying to make a political point here, I just found it ironic!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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