26Kim Jong-Il
North Korea's Kim Jong-Il was claimed to complete a 72 par course in 34 strokes, managing a world record five holes-in-one, making him the best golfer in the history of the world. It was also apparently the first time he has ever golfed.
27. In 2001, Kim Jong Il's eldest son (Kim Jong Nam) was caught using a fake Dominican passport to enter Japan. When asked for an explanation, he said he "just wanted to visit Disneyland." He was subsequently disowned by his father.
28. Most of the money George Clooney makes off his Nespresso commercials, he spends on a satellite that surveils over the border of North and South Sudan to keep an eye on criminal and dictator Omar al-Bashir to track his vicious army in an attempt to warn civilians before attacks occur
29. Efraín Ríos Montt, former de facto President of Guatemala, became the first former head of state to be convicted of genocide by a court in their own country.
30. Argentinian dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas had an eight-month-pregnant woman executed by firing squad for the crime of "sacrilege"
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31Juvenal Habyarimana
The plane of President Juvenal Habyarimana, Rwandan president whose assassination ignited the 1994 Genocide, was shot down near the Kigali International Airport and crashed in the backyard of the presidential residence
32. General Ne Win of Myanmar changed the country from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side, due to fears the nation had moved politically too far left.
33. Manuel Noriega, a former dictator of Panama, sued Activision for portraying him as a bad guy in the call of duty black ops series
34. The Arab League vehemently backs war criminal Omar al-Bashir, who is responsible for the deaths of nearly 500,000.
35. The U.S. dropped drug trafficking charges against Manuel Noriega after a 50 lb. the stash of 'cocaine' found in his freezer was revealed to be a 50 lb. the stash of tamales. Noriega used the tamales for 'magic binding' rituals against his opponents and people he wanted to control.
36Sarah York
Former ruler of Panama Manuel Noriega was pen pals with a 10-year-old girl named Sarah York from the United States, She originally wrote to him because she liked the general's hat. This correspondence developed to the point where Noriega invited her family to visit him in Panama.
37. Operation Nifty Package, a US mission in which American soldiers repeatedly blared rock music such as "I Fought the Law" and "Welcome to the Jungle" as a form of psychological warfare to force dictator Manuel Noriega to come out of his Vatican sanctuary. He surrendered after 10 days.
38. Russia will spend about $200,000 maintaining Vladimir Lenin's corpse this year. Maintenance includes bathing the body in chemicals and occasionally replacing parts.
39. When Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu was shot in 1989 was carrying an Apollo 17 moon rock given to Romania as a gift by the Nixon administration. The rock, worth up to 5 million dollars on the black market, is missing.
40. A 1984 plot by Romanian army generals to kill President Nicolae Ceaușescu failed when the military unit assigned to carry out the plan was sent to harvest maize instead.
41Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito of Japan was a huge fan of Mickey Mouse. He was given a Mickey Mouse watch as a gift during his special tour of Disneyland in 1975. For years, even on formal occasions, His Majesty was observed wearing the watch.
42. Spanish dictator Francisco Franco ordered many of the same deadly xenophobic/religious "solutions" as Hitler and Mussolini (and was asked to join the Axis during World War 2), but managed to remain neutral enough that Richard Nixon memorialized him as: "loyal friend and ally of the United States"
43. Fascist dictator Francisco Franco brought back the Spanish Monarchy, but the King of Spain instituted a democracy instead as soon as he came into power.
44. In 1972, Idi Amin sent a telegram to the UN Secretary General, Yasser Arafat, and Golda Meir to say he "applauded the massacre of the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich and said Germany was the most appropriate locale for this because it was where Hitler burned more than six million Jews."
45. In 1972, Ugandan President Idi Amin expelled all Hindus and Asians from the country after he said God told him to do in a dream.
46Idi's Islam conversion
Idi Amin, a convert to Islam who was responsible for the deaths of up to 400,000 people and was accused of cannibalism fled to Saudi Arabia after a coup and was allowed to live there in exile for over 20 years until his death.
47. Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada was previously an undefeated boxer from 1951-1960, winning the Ugandan light-heavyweight boxing championship.
48. Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's official title was "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."
49. Benito Mussolini survived many assassination attempts on his life. One of them was by a 15-year-old named Anteo Zamboni, who shot at Benito Mussolini, missed, and was subsequently lynched by squadristi. Anteo's father and aunt were arrested shortly after for influencing Zamboni's decision.
50. Benito Mussolini, at age 10, got expelled for stabbing a classmate in the butt.
