A Few More Things You Didn't Know About Bill Gates

Among the many tributes and retrospectives in anticipation of Bill Gates' retirement from Microsoft on Friday, John Foley over at InformationWeek offers us "a few things you didn't know" about the tech titan.

John's anecdotes, while interesting, are limited insofar as they are based on his personal experiences with the Microsoft co-founder. Thus I suspected he was merely scratching the surface of the "Gates we don't know" story. Determined to dig deeper, I embarked on a salvia-fueled Google search and came up with the following information about Bill Gates, the man and the legend:

Secretly planning professional wrestling career. Will enter squared circle next year at Wrestlemania XXV under the name Bill "Gates of Hell."

Once challenged Stephen Hawking to a 5K race.

Tryst in Redmond love nest with cartoon character Wanda Fairiewinkle spawned love child -- Leo of Little Einsteins.

Becomes enraged when people round down pi to 3.14.

Has a calculator in his head -- literally. The Texas Instruments TI-30 was implanted into his cranium by a team of Johns Hopkins interns in 1979.

Sleeps with his iPhone.

Likes to joke that company name was inspired by one of Paul Allen's body parts.

Landed in Bosnia several years ago under heavy sniper fire -- oops, sorry, that was Hill, not Bill.

Turned down by Gartner Research last year for junior analyst's job -- "not familiar enough with PC market."

Intends to endorse line of men's "Micro" Thongs.