Please prove your excistence and teach me about history, I would thank you with my life.
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Abraham Lincoln loved cats. He was obsessed with cats. When his wife was asked if he had any hobbies, she responded, “Cats.” He used to take home stray cats on a regular basis. One time he found some kittens on a farm during a military meeting and he put them his lap and petted them affectionately. Then he told the owners of the kittens to make sure they were given warm milk after he left.
Gouverneur Morris once tried to unclog the blockage in his dick (historians think he probably had prostate cancer) by shoving a whale bone up his pee hole, which resulted in death
Charles Adams, John Adams’s son, once got drunk and ran naked across Harvard Yard. He was expelled, but when John Adams spoke to the administrators he was readmitted.
John Quincy Adams wore the same hat every day for 10 years.
Also John Quincy Adams kept a live alligator as a present from Lafayette, which he kept in a bathtub in the East Wing of the White House.
Bonus fact: John Quincy Adams would frequently go to the library very early in the morning (around 4) but he would have to go through the guest rooms to get there, so guests often woke up scared by the president quietly sneaking through their rooms in the middle of the night. This grew to be such a problem that a /whole new hallway/ was built just for John Quincy to get to the library and is still there to this day. Thanks Egg President!
Mansa Musa of Mali was the richest man in all of history (and he wasn’t white!!!) and he was so rich and spent his money so crazily that it actually caused inflation in the Mediterranean and the value of gold fucking plummeted in places like Cairo and Medina, he tried to fix it but it took a really long time for markets to recover. So the entire economy of all of the Mediterranean was actually controlled by one guy for a bit and that’s insane
Frederick the Great of Prussia was all about music. He composed four symphonies and more than a hundred shorter sonatas, as well as being an accomplished flute player himself. He spent so much time playing (when he wasn’t beating the shit out of every great European power) that his head was permanently tilted.
At the height of his power cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was the 7th richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of $30 Billion. He wrote off $2 billion dollars each year lost to rodents eating his money, and spent $2,500 a month just on rubber bands used to store his cash in bricks.
Max Schmeling, German World Heavyweight Boxer (1930-1932), who lost to Joe ‘Brown Bomber’ Louis in 1938 (after only one round!). In 1940, he was forcibly drafted into the Luftwaffe (for defending his Jewish manager, and his friendship with Louis, more on that later!) and after 6 months as a Flak gunner he eventually volunteered to join the Fallschirmjäger, which was unusual for his age (he was above service age at this point). This served him well, as he was reticent to be a propaganda tool, the higher-ups gave way, since they figured he could be utilised for their purposes regardless of how he felt. In 1941 during his stint as a Fallachirmjäger he jumped into the battle of Crete as part of 12.Kompanie/1. Fallschirmjäger-Regiment. Not only did he make the jump, he did so while having severe dysentery (he reportedly shit his pants during his descent onto Crete) of which his officer had him removed from the island, once it was secured. He was shortly terminated from service and went back into obscurity until 1945 when he visited American P.O.W. camps to try and make conditions better for his fellow countrymen. He also did exhibition fights with Former British Friekorps member Eric Pleasants in German Officer mess-halls. He became the President of Coca-Cola Germany during the post war years. His friendship with Joe Louis never ended. When Joe died penniless in 1981, Herr Schmeling paid for his Military burial and gave his wife money to help out. Joe and Max’s friendship was legendary and pissed off the Third Reich’s leadership to no end. It didn’t help that he refused to dismiss his Jewish manager Joe Jacobs… Even under the pressure of Hitler! After his death in 2005 (at the age of 99!!), two Jewish people came forward to relay how he had saved them when they were children during the Jewish purges of Berlin1938. He had hid them in his own apartment. A large bronze bust in honour of Max resides in Hollenstadt Germany.