Ben Franklin liked to stand nude in front of open windows. -JoeMorgue

John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca Cola, did so because he was chronically addicted to morphine and was trying to get off of it. Original ingredients were cocaine (famously), sugar, alcohol, and caffeine. He was trying to supplant his other addiction. It did not work. -Nightjar82

Gandhi slept (literally) alongside naked girls to test his celibacy. -Jack_In_Black89

F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda, told him that the way he was built, he would never please a woman. He confessed this to Hemingway in a French bar, and Hemingway told him to meet him in the bathroom where he looked at Fitzgerald's dick and told him he was "perfectly fine." -littleredridinghood6

Victor Hugo was a very diligent visitor at the Parisian brothels. So much so that the day he was buried, all the Parisian brothel closed for the day so prostitutes could go to the funeral. -chinchenping

Anne Frank's journal, or at least the editions most commonly seen around the English-speaking world, is heavily censored by it's publisher. In the versions that aren’t censored, we can see that she was a teenager who unashamedly described her sexual and romantic attractions to both boys and girls, admitting to have asked to touch one of her friends breast (before she went into hiding). -3nderslime

James Joyce wrote absolutely filthy letters to his wife Nora. He was one randy chap altogether. -Gillybilly

JFK had a circumcision when he was 21 because of phimosis and then proceeded to f**k as much as possible. -TheBeardedTinMan

John Quincy Adams boasted that outdoor boning was an American invention. Between that, his pet alligator, and a life spent in public service (literally from his teenage years until his death), probably far more interesting than most people who've held high office in the USA. -Bowmore34yr

Lord Byron was an anorexic, drug and sex addict who shagged his sister. A lot. -Polar-Hare-Force

Hitler was a meth addict. -Coffeemedic513

Mozart was kinky as heck, he wrote a song/ poem which roughly translates to modern English as lick my a**. -nerdiusgeekius

Marilyn Monroe had constant gas. All of her husbands corroborated it privately. -chux4w

Napoleon liked his women smelly. He once wrote to Josephine, "I will be home in three days. Don't wash." -missannthrope1

Peter the Great scoured the Russian Empire in search of dwarfs and giants in an effort to breed a race of each, while he couldn't find enough giants he found many dwarfs. He would bake a huge pie and have a dwarf get naked and wait inside it to jump out and scare guests. -IanChase85

Nancy Reagan was the throat goat, well known in Hollywood for her oral sex abilities before getting with Reagan. -throwawayfjabfhw

Kary Mullis was doing a lot of LSD when he developed Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). -1-877-CASH-NOW

Queen Victoria really loved having sex with her husband Prince Albert. Like, really loved sex with him. To the point that she was quite audible through doors and walls. Several times per day. -TheGreatCornolio682

Edgar Allen Poe (M27) married his “slightly” younger cousin (F13). -Killakodakk

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein lost her virginity on her mother's grave. -Unique_Finance_2358