Facts About Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was much more than the British Bulldog who held Britain together during the Blitz. He was also a prisoner of war with a bounty on his head who secretly sold paintings from a Paris art gallery - and that's just the beginning when it comes to weird Winston Churchill facts.

Did you know that Churchill once ordered firefighters to let a London building burn to the ground rather than try to save the people inside? Or that 50 years before the Blitz, a teenage Churchill predicted, "I tell you London will be in danger - London will be attacked and I shall be very prominent in the defense of London?" Or that Churchill once jumped up during a dinner party, told his kitchen staff to run for a shelter, and sat back down three minutes before a bomb destroyed his kitchen?

These strange facts about Winston Churchill might seem like fiction, but they're all true.

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[harryb]

He was PM from 40-45 and then again 51-55. This glaring error makes me suspicious of anything said after the for 10 seconds.

[dynadd]

There are so many quotes from Churchill that i like but this one is my favorite :
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

[manicmechanic]

"Tomorrow I will be sober, and you will still be ugly. "
Winston Churchill

[mymicks]

I was just assigned to play Winston Churchill in my role playing history university class. Perfect timing

[greg]

First thing I immediately noticed was the video not mentioning him being a PM from May of 1940 to July of 1945

[hughmungus]

There was an interesting anecdote about Churchill that I saw in a documentary recently. In the early 1960s when he was in his late 80s, he liked to gamble at Monte Carlo. On one such trip, accompanied by one of his granddaughters, an American came up to him, expressed his admiration of Churchill, and shook his hand. After the American left, Churchill asked his daughter who the American, who was completely unfamiliar to him, was. His granddaughter told him it was Frank Sinatra!

[Mackeson]

One of my favourite Churchill anecdotes as told by Labour MP George Brown : Brown was going into the gentleman's toilets in The Houses of Parliament, just as Churchill (By then an old man) was coming out. Brown noticed that Churchill had forgotten to button up his trousers and Brown said to him "Sir Winston, your flies are still undone" to which Churchill replied quick as a flash : "Oh, thank you George but a dead bird rarely, if indeed ever, escapes from it's nest!"

[schizoidboy]

Something else missed about his captivity. When the train he was on was attacked and he was captured, the Boer soldier who captured him was the Boer leader Botha, who would later become Prime Minister of South Africa.

[paulmcjello]

Churchill referred to his depression as "Black dog"

[steelgray]

- Hitler: "Dictator"
- Stalin: "Soviet Political Leader"

[sergpodolnii]

I think one very interesting moment from his life was skipped - his participation in battle of Omdurman. The Islamic cavalry charge against machine guns.

[shalyna]

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give!🥰

[projectinlinesix]

He was also prime minister from '40 to '45, wasn't he?

[mikemurley]

26 October 1951 – 5 April 1955 was Churchill's second term as Prime Minister. His WW2 term was 10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945. T

[maddiemoo]

Winston Churchill is actually a relative of mine on my mother’s side. It’s super cool to know all the accomplishments and things he did. I believe I got my love for horses from him to be honest!

[smoochie]

Didn’t he also serve from 1940-1945?
Why only mention his second term?

[slobodatom]

Did they honestly say at the top of the video that Churchill was most famous for his stretch as PM POST WAR?!?!?! He was PM twice, most prevalently from 1940 - 1945, then again in the 50s. You're supposed to be a history channel for Christ's sake

[TheReaper]

Crazy to think that if Woodrow Wilson or Winston Churchill were listened to about their opinions on the Treaty of Versailles then WW2 could have been avoided.

[schizoidboy]

Another activity of his was writing. He wrote history books, but I once came across a horror story he wrote in a horror anthology. In it a man falls off a cruise ship and is soon attacked by a shark as the ship moves away.

[michaelc]

You know he was PM during the War not just after. (Opening 10 seconds, “he was PM from 1951 to 55” I do believe he was also PM when this particularly evil event took place in Europe…