Facts about Albert Einstein

The doctor who performed Einstein's autopsy stole his brain and kept it in a jar for 20 years;

His great ideas and discoveries came from scenarios that he created in his mind, and not in the laboratory;

Einstein's brain had a 15% larger than average parietal lobe;

The scientist did not consider himself an atheist, but an agnostic;

Israel wanted the scientist to be president of the country, but he refused to assume that position;

His Nobel Prize has nothing to do with the Theory of Relativity, but with his discoveries about the photoelectric effect;

Known to have a bad memory, Einstein struggled to remember names, dates and phone numbers;

Einstein's eyes are still kept in New York;

Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda was inspired by Albert Einstein;

The scientist never owned a car or learned to drive all his life;

Einstein was totally against racial segregation, and called the phenomenon "white people's disease". He worked as an activist for causes against racism during his lifetime.

The physicist was one of the people to sign a petition against German law banning homosexuals.

In order not to have to enlist, Einstein renounced his German citizenship in 1896 and spent five years without any citizenship. Then he acquired Swiss citizenship in 1901, Austrian in 1911 and American in 1940.