26Andrew Jackson's Bedside Locket
Andrew Jackson carried a locket with a picture of his deceased wife, Rachel Jackson, and propped it up in front of his bed every night. This way, she would be the last thing he saw when falling asleep and the first thing when he woke up.
27. Sir David Attenborough always wears a blue shirt and khaki pants to help with continuity when filming months and sometimes thousands of miles apart.
28. Frank Sinatra always kept a collection of ten dimes with him. This practice originated from a moment of concern when he feared running out of change while negotiating with his son's kidnappers. Interestingly, he was laid to rest with these dimes in his pocket.
29. Madame Queen was a black female gang leader who ran numerous criminal enterprises in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and 1930s. She once cut off a man's scrotum with the razor she always carried strapped to her thighs.
30. David Bowie used to travel around in New York carrying a Greek newspaper in the belief that people would assume he was just a Greek man who looked like David Bowie and leave him alone.
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31Theodore Roosevelt's Morphine Vial
Theodore Roosevelt used to carry a vial of morphine with him for years, just in case he needed to take his own life.
32. Christopher Lee was attached to three different special forces units in World War 2, two of which were the SOE and the SAS. While alive, he always carried the SAS ID card with him.
33. Louis Armstrong always wore a Star of David as an homage to a Jewish family that took him in when he was young and gave him his first horn.
34. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Nintendo games like Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda, has a hobby of guessing the measurements of objects and then checking if they are correct. He enjoys this hobby so much that he carries a tape measure with him everywhere.
35. The Dalai Lama carries a high-end Swiss pocket watch, a gift from Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943.
