1) Napoleon Bonaparte once wrote a romance novel.

In 1795 the French general and soon to be consul and emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, aged 26, wrote a romance novel called “Clisson et Eugénie” (English: Clisson and Eugenie) which was 17 pages long. The book was based on the relationship he had with one of his mistresses and the future queen of Sweden, Eugénie Désirée Clary. The plot can be synopsized as: Clisson, a heroic revolutionary French soldier, but tired of war, meets and falls for Eugénie at a public bath. Retiring from the military, Clisson and Eugénie marry and raise several children within an idyllic countryside retreat, but war returns and Clisson feels compelled to serve his country. Unfortunately, Clisson is injured in battle and Berville, a comrade sent to reassure Eugénie, seduces her, who stops sending Clisson letters. Heartbroken at the end of his marriage, Clisson then sends off one final letter to his unfaithful wife and her new lover before deliberately engineering his death at the front of an armed charge toward the enemy. Napoleon may have been a successful general and statesman but not a successful writer and novelist. Maybe his book is worth a read, doesn’t it?

2) The day when 60 German nobles drowned in liquid excrement.

In July 1184, Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held court at a Hoftag in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement. This event is called Erfurter Latrinensturz (lit. ’Erfurt latrine fall’) in several German sources. Nobles across the Holy Roman Empire were invited to the meeting, and many arrived on 25 July to attend. Just as the assembly began, the wooden floor of the deanery, in which the nobles were sitting, broke under the stress, and people fell down through the first floor into the latrine in the cellar. About 60 people died,[6] including Count Gozmar III of Ziegenhain, Count Friedrich I of Abenberg, Burgrave Friedrich I of Kirchberg, Count Heinrich I of Schwarzburg, Burgrave Burchard of Wartburg and Beringer of Meldingen. King Henry was said to have survived only because he sat in an alcove with a stone floor.

3)Abraham Lincoln, licensed bartender and wrestling champion.

Abraham Lincoln, who was the President of the United States between 1861-1865, was a licensed bartender before becoming the President. He was also the part owner of a store in Illinois, called Berry and Lincoln, which sold items including liquor, bacon, firearms, and honey. He also competed in wrestling matches for more than a decade of his youth and rarely lost. His abilities were formally recognized by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, which inducted him as an “Outstanding American” in the sport in 1992

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