1 - The scientist did not consider himself an atheist, but rather an agnostic;
2 – His great ideas and discoveries stemmed from scenarios he created in his mind, not in the laboratory;
3 – As a child, he spoke very slowly and had learning difficulties;
4 – The doctor who performed Einstein's autopsy stole his brain and kept it in a jar for 20 years;
5 – The money he won from the Nobel Prize ended up with his ex-wife when they divorced;
6 - Israel wanted the scientist to be president of the country, but he refused to accept the position;
7 – He didn't get into university on his first try;
8 – His Nobel Prize has nothing to do with the Theory of Relativity, but rather with his discoveries about the photoelectric effect;
9 – Known for having a poor memory, Einstein had difficulty remembering names, dates, and phone numbers;
10 – The equation E = mc2 was originally published by the Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl;
11 – Einstein's eyes are still preserved in New York;
12 – Master Yoda from Star Wars was inspired by Albert Einstein;
13 – The scientist never owned a car nor learned to drive in his entire life;
14 – Einstein's brain had a parietal lobe that was 15% larger than average;
15 – Einstein's favorite scientist was Galileo Galilei;
16 – Einstein was totally against racial segregation, and called the phenomenon a “white people's disease.” He worked as an activist for anti-racism causes throughout his life;
17 – The physicist was one of the people who signed a petition against the German law that banned homosexuals;
18 – Some American officials, such as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, even came to believe that Einstein was a Soviet spy;
19 – In addition to betraying his wife and refusing to acknowledge her scientific work, Einstein made her sign a contract in which she agreed to leave the room or stop talking whenever he asked. The scientist also did not share any household chores with her;
20 – Even though he considered himself a pacifist, Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt, asking him to prioritize the development of the atomic bomb before the German Nazis did so;
21 – To avoid having to enlist, Einstein renounced his German citizenship in 1896 and remained without citizenship for five years. He then acquired Swiss citizenship in 1901, Austrian citizenship in 1911, and American citizenship in 1940.