Give me your favorite historical fun fact

Did you know that Albert Einstein was offred the role of president in Israel?

i farted

poland almost had samurais due to brief talks about Polish–Japanese military cooperation, but it never materialized :(

Catherine I of russia woke up at 4 p.m. and went to bed at 10 a.m.

After the Chernobyl disaster, the man in charge of the safety test, Viktor Brykhanov, was held responsible and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. However, he only did 5, was released, and would be put in charge of another Soviet powerplant. this mf tured chernoble into a nukler bomb and still got his job back wtf 

during the cold war there was a messy political conflict or pysop (people still dont even know) that had south korea believing kim il sung had been assasinated, there were loudspeakers at the dmz announcing that kim il sung had been assassinated and people claiming that he had been assassinated, but literally nothing happened.