1. After his death, Albert Einstein's brain was stolen by a pathologist and cut up into 240 pieces. Thomas Harvey was the pathologist on call at Princeton Hospital when Einstein died there in April 1955. Einstein wanted all of his remains to be cremated and scattered, but Harvey had other ideas. He took the brain without permission , and eventually it was carved up into 240 pieces, preserved, and stored in Harvey's basement. 2. Time passes faster for your face than your feet. "Time dilation" is a side effect of Einstein's relativity. You might have heard about it in relation to something called the "twin paradox" – a thought experiment that involves one twin being sent up to space while the other remains on Earth. Einstein's theory says that the twin on the spaceship, traveling at high speed around the universe, ages more slowly, and when she returns is younger than her Earth-bound sibling. This has been proved true by sending cl...