Livescience.com brings us a listicle of “32 fun and random facts” about Albert Einstein.

Are there any I didn’t know already? Yes, as it happens…

  • He was friends with Charlie Chaplin, who once told him: “The people applaud me because everybody understands me, and they applaud you because no one understands you.”
  • He was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), declaring that segregation was “a disease of white people”.
  • He didn’t wear socks.
  • He loved sailing, but often needed rescuing when his boat capsized.
  • He invented a refrigerator with no moving parts. Cool, eh?