Fun Facts About People

1.   Elvis Presley never wrote any of his songs.

2.   Alfred P. Southwick was a dentist who is credited for inventing the electric chair.

3.   Tarzan's yell is a registered trademark and service mark, owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

4.   Pope John XX never existed.

5.   Jeff Bezos was named the richest man in modern history after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018.

6.   Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences.

7.   The fried chicken was brought to America by Scottish immigrants.

8.   Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

9.   Enric Marco, a Catalan mechanic, was a prominent public face Spanish survivors of the Holocaust for decades until his story was revealed to be a lie.

10.   About 20% of the world's tech founders are immigrants, even though immigrants only make up about 4 percent of the world's population.

11.   IIya Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian and Soviet biologist who attempted to impregnate a chimpanzee with human sperm to create a human-ape hybrid.

12.   Leif Erikson was the first known European to have set foot on continent North America before Christopher Columbus.

13.   J.K. Rowling invented Quidditch in a pub.

14.   Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel in 1952 but declined.

15.   Ronald Reagan first job involved working as a lifeguard. Over six years, Reagan reportedly performed 77 rescues as a lifeguard.