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1. Fidel Castro was the world's third longest-serving head of state, after the Queen of Britain and the King of Thailand. He was its longest-serving government leader when illness forced him to hand over power to his brother in July 2006.

2. Castro's holds the Guinness Book of Records title for the longest speech ever delivered at the United Nations: 4 hours and 29 minutes, on Sept. 29, 1960. His longest speech on record in Cuba was 7 hours and 10 minutes in 1986 at the III Communist Party Congress in Havana.

3. Castro claims he survived 634 attempts on his life, mainly masterminded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. They involved poison pills, a toxic cigar, exploding mollusks, a chemically tainted diving suit and powder to make his beard fall out so as to undermine his popularity.

4. Castro, once a cigar-chomping guerrilla fighter, gave up cigars in 1985. Years later he summed up the harm of smoking tobacco by saying: "The best thing you can do with this box of cigars is to give them to your enemy."

5. In 2008 Fidel Castro turned over the Cuban presidency to his brother Raul, due to his own failing health.

6. In 1940, 12-year-old boy Fidel Castro wrote a letter to President F. Roosevelt to request a $10 bill because he had never seen one before.

7. He lived with his teacher from the age of six in Santiago de Cuba. He was baptized a Roman Catholic at the age of eight, although his religious beliefs are debatable as in later life, he has declared himself an atheist.

8. The CIA had a plot to use a depilatory chemical on Fidel Castro to cause his beard to fall out.

9. When Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, he immediately ordered all game sets of Monopoly to be destroyed.

10. Fidel Castro has said that he saved ten working days a year by not bothering to shave.
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