Einstein's brain was smaller than average, but he parietal lobes were 15% wider than normal. These areas are linked to mathematical and spatial skills

Albert Einstein considered himself an agnostic, not an athiest

Albert Einstein never won a Nobel prize for the theory of relativity. It was his explanation of the photoelectric effect that made him a Nobel laureate in 1905

When Israeli head of state Chaim Weizmann died in 1952, the Israeli government offered to appoint Einstein as the nation's second president

Prior to winning the Noble Prize, Einstein signed away all future Nobel Prize money to his wife as a divorce settlement

Einstein had a notoriously bad memory. He routinely forgot names, places and dates