You'll Feel So Smart When You Learn These 10 Facts About Albert Einstein

Einstein was known for having extramarital affairs and constantly being flocked by women. It's been said that he had six girlfriends while he was married to his second wife Elsa, which he called a "marriage of convenience."

Einstein wasn't directly involved with the Manhattan Project, the secret U.S. mission to create a nuclear weapon before other countries. He was actually banned from being involved with the project and from speaking with any of the scientists, but he did sign a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt encouraging him to begin development on the nuclear weapons. 

He helped to create the Einstein refrigerator which didn't use any electricity. He also invented a blouse with a second row of buttons that would fit both a slim person who gain weight and larger person who lost weight. 

Kurt Godel was a scientist and friend of Einstein's. When Godel went to get his citizenship, he had Einstein come along to support him. Godel had a disagreement with the person interviewing him, stating that due to a loophole in the constitution, the U.S. could easily become a dictatorship. Einstein told Godel to stop talking, knowing that if he continued, he wouldn't be granted citizenship. 

In various proofs of E=mc^2, Einstein made seven mistakes.

Einstein's second son Eduard was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 20 and was later placed in a  psychiatric facility full-time. Einstein wasn't surprised by the diagnosis, because Eduard's aunt (on his mother's side) had a history of mental illness. 

Einstein loved smoking because he said it made him feel calm and said it gave him "objective judgment.” He was a lifetime member of the Montreal Pipe Smokers Club.

It's a well known myth that Einstein wasn't a great student, but that actually isn't true. He actually changed high schools from a German school to a Swiss one and the differences in grading systems did make it seem like he'd failed. However, he did fail his college entrance exams.

German scientist David Hilbert claimed that he developed the theory of general relativity first, but Einstein passed it off as his own with giving Hilbert any credit. Historians later found that Hilbert had submitted his theory of relativity first, but it contained missed steps and mistakes. 

Einstein was spied on by the FBI between 1933, when he arrived in the U.S., until his death in 1955. His phone was tapped, his trash was search and he was followed. The government believed that he was either an anti-government radical or a communist.