Get Mesmerized with 13 Amazing Facts about Albert Einstein

If you’re reading this, you clearly love to learn… and we do too!

Our team has found 13 super cool facts about Albert Einstein we hope you enjoy.

• Albert Einstein never wore socks!
• He never learned to drive a car.
  • He never owned a car in his life.
• Einstein loved to smoke pipes.
• He loved to sail and owned a boat that he named “Tinef”, which essentially means worthless junk in Yiddish.
• He did not know how to swim.
• Einstein had a terrible memory for things he didn’t think were important enough to memorize.

• Albert Einstein was talented at playing the violin.
• He offered his Nobel Prize to his wife as part of their divorce settlement.
• The FBI spied on Einstein for over 20-years. His file was over 1,800 pages long.
• Einstein was asked to be the President of Israel, which he declined.
• The last words Einstein spoke were in German.
  • He spoke them to a nurse who did not understand German, so his final words were lost forever.

‘I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock, so I stopped wearing socks.’ – Albert Einstein

• He died of an aneurysm.
• Albert Einstein’s brain and eyeballs were stolen from the Princeton Hospital.
  • Thomas Harvey stole them when he performed an illegal autopsy.
    • He kept his brain in a mason jar until he finally returned it to the hospital.
  • Today, Einstein’s brain is at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
  • Harvey gave Einstein’s eyeballs to Henry Adams, Einstein’s eye doctor.
    • Today Einstein’s eyeballs are safely stored in a safe deposit box in New York City.

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