10 Weird Facts About "Fidel Castro"
1. Fidel Castro led Cuba for five decades and was the world's third longest-serving head of state, after Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the King of Thailand. 2. Despite assassination plots, an invasion and five decades of economic sanctions, Fidel Castro outlasted nine U.S. presidents, from Eisenhower to Clinton. 3. The CIA had a plot to use a depilatory chemical on Fidel Castro to cause his beard to fall out. 4. Fidel Castro holds the record for the longest speech ever delivered to the United Nations: 4 hours and 29 minutes, on Sept. 26, 1960. 5. Fidel Castro was born on a Friday the 13th. 6. In 1940, 12-year-old boy Fidel Castro wrote a letter to President F. Roosevelt to request a $10 bill because he had never seen one before. 7. The CIA operation to invade Cuba and take down Castro was dubbed "Operation Castration." 8. Fidel Castro has said that he saved ten working days a year by not bo...