10 Quirky Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Real-Life Dictators

They might have made themselves into some of the most powerful men in the world, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have some flaws.

1. Kim Jong-il was the world’s biggest buyer of Hennessy, spending $600,000-850,000 annually on it.

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2. Adolf Hitler had constant, explosive flatulence, as a result of his strict adherence to his veggie-based diet.

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3. Benito Mussolini loved eating raw garlic.

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4. Muammar Gaddafi was “in love” with Condoleezza Rice.

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I support my darling black African woman. I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders… Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. … I love her very much. I admire her and I’m proud of her because she’s a black woman of African origin.

5. Hitler might have only had one ball.

There’s significant evidence that he suffered a groin injury during WWI and medics had to remove his left testicle.

6. Kim Jong il claimed that he invented the new sandwich, “double bread with meat,” aka the hamburger.

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7. Josef Stalin was only 5’4”, and President Truman once called him a “little squirt.”

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8. Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, “President for Life” of Turkmenistan from 1990-2007, changed the word for “bread” to the name of his mother.

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9. Gaddafi was a huge hypochondriac, and brought Galyna, a “voluptuous blonde” nurse from Ukraine, on all his trips.

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10. Hugo Chavez is notoriously long-winded, and his weekly Sunday talk show has lasted as long as eight hours.

Via: reuters.com