40 Distinguished Bits of Trivia About Historical Figures Whose Exploits Will Be Revered Centuries From Now

Some of these folks deserve a lot more credit

This list was a hard to muster up, because these fine folks made us think “what are we actually doing with our lives?” We get that not everyone can isolate hormones that are now used in a plethora of life-saving medicines and then have an affair with a colleagues wife, but we need to get out there and do something! The isolating hormones thing is way about our intelligence-grade, but some dudes around here have some pretty cute wives, so… 

Joking! Just joking. Here are some historical figures that all did some pretty wild stuff:

Mary Edwards Walker

Ada Lovelace

Thomas Paine

Mary Shelley

Alan Turing

Francis Hopkinson

Percy Julian

Isaac Newton

The Zhengde Emperor

John Quincy Adams

Charles VI

Justin II

Stonewall Jackson

Jack Kirby

El Greco

Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla

Ray Kroc and Walt Disney

Dali and Freud

William Shakespeare

Napoleon

Harry Houdini

Ed Headrick

Dr. Seuss

Che Guevara

Jimmy Carter

John Wayne

Leo Fender

Leonardo da Vinci

Galileo

Beate Sirota Gordon

Flossie Wong-Staal

Eta Wrobel

Mary Seacole

Huda Sha’arawi

Zura Karuhimbi

Heinrich Goebel

Elisha Gray

Henri Poincare

Valentina Tereshkova

Ub Iwerks

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article