Today , the world mourns the death of a great leader and a revolutionary hero : Fidel Castro .
Here are 10 facts about him.
1. Fidel Castro was the third longest serving at head of a state, after Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the King of Thailand .
2. Crasto holds the record of : the longest speech in United Nations, with 4 hours and 29 minutes in 1960.
3. Castro always said that he survived 634 attempts to assassinate him mostly by Central Intelligence Agency and US based exile organisations.
4. Castro outlasted 10 US Presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower untill he stepped down when George W. Bush was in office.
5. Castro used to smoke Cuban cigars, but in 1985 he gave away the habit .
6. Castro donned a beard since he was a young revolutionary living in the mountains. He said that he would rather spend this time on other important activities than shaving it.
7. In 1960, He said in UN that he would eradicate illiteracy from Cuba in a year, and he reduced the illiteracy rate from 23% to 4%.
8. In 1948, he married the daughter of an affluent family called Mirta Diaz-Balart. He divorced her seven years later when he was in exile. The reason for this was that his love letters to another woman, Natalia Revuelta, and his letters to Mirta were switched.
9. Fidel Castro has nine children from five women.
10. He wrote hundreds of columns for media. After that, his public appearance became limited.
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