34 Strange But True Facts About Albert Einstein

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26Excellent student

Excellent student

Albert Einstein actually had good grades in school, with the highest scores in his A-levels for algebra, geometry, descriptive geometry, history, and physics. His reputation for being bad at school comes from his dislike of school authority, leading to clashes with teachers.


27. Albert Einstein married his first cousin, Elsa Löwenthal. Not only were their mother's sisters, but their fathers were cousins too, making the married couple second cousins as well. The relationship began while Einstein was still married to his first wife, physicist Mileva Marić.


28. Albert Einstein smoked cigarette butts picked off from the street and went out sailing when there was no wind because it was 'more challenging.'


29. When asked what was the speed of sound Albert Einstein said: "[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books."


30. Albert Einstein was a lousy sailor and he had a boat named "Tinef" which is Yiddish for "little piece of junk.


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31Spy affair

Spy affair

Albert Einstein once had an affair with a Soviet spy named Margarita Konenkova.


32. Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe deposit box in New York City.


33. When Albert Einstein "wanted a divorce from his first wife, he gave her the ultimatum that, if she wanted to remain with him and not grant him a divorce, then he expected her to serve him three meals a day in his room but not expect any intimacy in return."


34. In 1930, Albert Einstein met with fellow Nobel laureate, Indian philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and had a friendly debate. Einstein found that he believed more in absolute truth than the religious man he was debating, leading him to say to Tagore, "Then I am more religious than you are!"

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