@ that whole article
A couple of those "facts" were completely wrong/unresearched.
Yeah he had flaws (as with any human who scribed himself in history), but he didn't have the most dandy of all childhoods, being ditched by his parents and all at a young age, living in the slums of liverpool and what not.
But norly, listverse isn't the best place to conduct research at. It's almost as worse as wikipedia.
