Things you never knew about the 20th century's greatest political leaders...

Edition 1: Sir Winston Churchill

• Churchill liked the odd adrenalin rush and flew aeroplanes, steeplechased, played polo and climbed a mountain.
  
  
• Clementine Churchill was the 4th girl Churchill proposed to.
  
  
• Churchill thought he could communicate telepathically with one of his pet sheep, whom he called "Friendly".
  
  
• Churchill once appeared before the American President, Franklin Roosevelt, in the nude.
  
  
• Churchill served as Prime Minister twice, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary.
  
  
• Churchill went on the run as an escaped prisoner-of-war during the Boer War.
  
  
• Some of Churchill's papers held in the Archives Centre have cigar burns and peck marks from his pet budgerigar.
  
  
• Churchill wanted Churchill College to be built in a neo-classical style - he would probably have disapproved of the College's architecture!
  
  
• Churchill was a card-carrying member of the Ancient Order of Druids and the brick-layer's union (the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers).

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