9 'Amazing Facts' That Are Totally Untrue

3. Albert Einstein Failed Maths At School

People love the idea of a genius that failed academically. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both dropped out of university, John Lennon was expelled from college, and Einstein - that genius of geniuses - supposedly failed maths, despite going on to develop one of the most beautiful theories in modern physics.

This kind of thing gives people hope that, although they spent more time smoking in the toilets than concentrating in class, they too might go on to make brainbox history.

Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for the rest of the world, Einstein was actually really good at maths, and he's got the report card to prove it.

Little Albert had actually mastered differential and integral calculus by the tender age of 15, although he did get in trouble for back chatting his teachers when he thought they were being too authoritarian - which is probably what gave rise to the maths myth.