SENSELESS THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT KINGS

KING HARALD OF NORWAY (STILL KING AS OF

THIS WRITING) MADE A VOW TO REMAIN SINGLE

UNLESS HE COULD MARRY SONJA HARALDSEN,

THE DAUGHTER OF A CLOTHING MERCHANT.

SHE EVENTUALLY BECAME QUEEN

AFTER KING KAMEHAMEHA OF HAWAII WAS

SMACKED ON THE HEAD BY THE PADDLE OF

A FRIGHTENED FISHERMAN DURING A

BATTLE, HE DID MORE THAN JUST SPARE

THE FISHERMAN'S LIFE. HE PASSED SOMETHING

CALLED THE "LAW OF THE SPLINTERED OAR".

THIS LAW STILL STANDS TODAY IN HAWAII AND

PROTECTS CIVILIANS IN TIMES OF WAR

BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY WAS NAMED AFTER

HARALD BLUETOOTH, THE KING OF DENMARK AND

NORWAY BECAUSE JUST LIKE HARALD UNITED THE

TWO KINGDOMS, BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY WAS

INTENDED TO UNITE WIRELESS DEVICES

WHEN EGYPTOLOGISTS REALIZED THAT THE MUMMY

OF RAMESSES II WAS DETERIORATING IT WAS

FLOWN TO PARIS FOR EXAMINATION. RAMESSES II

WAS ISSUED AN EGYPTIAN PASSPORT THAT LISTED

HIS OCCUPATION AS "KING (DECEASED)"

KING LEONIDAS WAS 60 YEARS OLD WHEN HE

FOUGHT XERXES

KING OLAV V OF NORWAY USED TO TRAVEL AROUND

USING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. NOT SURPRISINGLY

HE WAS NICKNAMED FOLKEKONGE, OR

"THE PEOPLE'S KING"

KING GEORGE I OF ENGLAND DIDN'T SPEAK

ENGLISH BECAUSE HE WAS BORN IN GERMANY.

SINCE CATHOLICS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO

SUCCEED A MONARCH IN ENGLAND, HE

BECAME KING SINCE HE WAS THE CLOSEST

LIVING RELATIVE OF THE QUEEN

KING CHARLES VI OF FRANCE THOUGHT HE WAS

MADE OF GLASS (PROBABLY BECAUSE OF STRESS)