8 Interesting Facts About Albert Einstein

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#001
Placed little value on money. On one occasion he marked his place in a book with a $1,500 check, then lost the book.
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#002
Was offered the presidency of Israel but turned it down, as he had no political or ceremonial ambitions.
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#003
Phoned the comedian Sid Caesar and proposed they meet to talk about the human condition. The meeting never happened, because Caesar assumed they would have nothing to discuss.
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#004
When he left Germany in 1933, the Nazis placed a 20,000-mark bounty on his head.
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#005
Did not want his body or brain studied or venerated; he left explicit instructions that after his death he be cremated and his ashes scattered in secret.
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#006
Producer Julian Blaustein gave Sam Jaffe the part of Prof. Barnhardt in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) because he looked like Einstein, then the world's best-known scientist. Blaustein and director Robert Wise went on calling Prof. Barnhardt the "Einstein character" for years afterward.
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#007
Signed a letter backing the Scottsboro Nine, young African-American men in Alabama convicted of assault and rape in a trial widely regarded as unjust. H.G. Wells and Thomas Mann lent their names to similar letters.
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Disliked giving autographs and asked for $1.00 before signing anything, then donated the money to charity.
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