I'll keep it safe.

1. I remember he would go on an annual fast to lose weight.

2. He had an endearing lisp when he spoke.

3. Once an optician used a photo of Kohl in his shop window to promote a style of glasses that Kohl wore. Then there was a court order, or a threat of legal action, so the optician was forced to remove the photo. For non German speakers, Kohl in German means cabbage. So the optician put a head of cabbage in his shop window with the Helmut Kohl style glasses on it! It was in newspapers all over Germany.