Ten fun facts about Albert Einstein
Fact 1:
Although Albert was a genius, he had bad memory.
Fact 2:
Albert stopped wearing socks because his big toes used to make a hole in them.
Fact 3:
Einstein was offered the Presidency of Israel in 1952 but declined it.
Fact 4:
After his death, his brain was removed for autopsy without the approval of his family.
Fact 5:
At the age of 17, he failed an early admission test for a University.
Fact 6:
At the age of five, his father gave him a compass; it was this compass that made him interested in science.
Fact 7:
When he was a child he had a speaking problem that his parents thought he had a mental-handicap problem.
Fact 8:
He received a physics Nobel prize in 1921.
Fact 9:
Albert was born in 1879 in Ulm, Germany.
Fact 10:
Albert died in 1955, at the age of 76.
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