You all know about Albert Einstein; the genius and what not, right? However, there are facts about him that are not mentioned in books. Don’t worry though; we have put together a list of facts about Albert Einstein that many people are not aware of, check out the list below and do let us know what you think of it;
1. He didn’t like socks and almost always never wore them. He opted for sockless shoes out of the sheer discomfort for socks.
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2. Did you know that an early model of the refrigerator was one of Einstein’s innovations?
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3. Albert Einstein was in a patent office because he was unable to get a teaching post. Things changes after he joined the Prussian Academy of Sciences and became affiliated with Princeton University.
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4. Einstein did not help with the invention of the atomic bomb. He did, however, advise President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create one before the Germans were able to.
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5. Einstein’s memory was not his sharpest tool. For instance, he didn’t know how many feet were in a mile. He said, ‘Why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?’
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6. After WWII, Einstein advocated for a Jewish home state. However, he was shocked when Israel offered him the presidency in 1952.
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7. The FBI monitored Albert Einstein for decades and had a report of 1,600 pages on him after his death. FBI was monitoring him because Director J. Edgar Hoover believed Einstein had leftist leanings.
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8. He was not able to speak until he was three years and kept on repeating every sentence that he said under his breath, a habit known as Einstein Syndrome.
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9. Einstein’s passion for science began when he was five years old, and his father gave him a compass. He was captivated by the ability of this gadget to always point in the same direction.
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10. He was forced to learn the violin as a child by his mother. He developed a passion for it when he turned 13 and continued playing it until he died.
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11. Makeup artist Stuart Freedman borrowed his facial features for designing Yoda for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
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12. He never learned how to swim and ran his sailboat aground on more than one occasions. Nonetheless, boating remained one of his other favorite hobbies.
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13. Dr Thomas Stoltz Harvey kept the brain of Albert Einstein after performing an autopsy on him and relinquished the organ in 1998.
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14. For those who wanted to ask him questions on the street, he would respond apologetically, ‘Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.’
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15. He never really fixed his relationship with the eldest son, Hans. Hans grew apart from his father after his parents’ divorce.
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16. Einstein divorced his first wife Mileva in 1919 and married his first cousin, Elsa Löwenthal. Surprisingly, she wasn’t his first choice; he wanted to marry her daughter Ilse.
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17. In 1999, TIME Magazine voted Einstein as the Person of the Century while describing him as ‘the pre-eminent scientist in a century dominated by science’.
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18. Einstein made waves in academia with his free-form teaching style.
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19. In the 1980s, historians discovered that Albert Einstein had a child out of wedlock with Mileva Mari?. The girl was named Lieserl and put her up for adoption.
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20. Einstein was a fan of smoking and believed that it helped him with his thought process.
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21. Einstein used to clash with a lot of his teachers because he would regularly become bored with conventional schooling. Apparently, Elon Musk is also against conventional schooling!
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