During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps in 1840
Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.
n 1836, Mexican General Santa Anna held an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg.
In 1926, a waiter in Budapest committed suicide. He left his suicide note in the form of a crossword and the police had to get help from the public to solve it.
Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous.
Talc was used by cavemen 15,000 years ago as an ingredient added to make paint.
The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years.
The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.
Unlike a frog a toad cannot jump
7 out of 10 people believe in life after death.
In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.
Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
On April 4, 1974, John Massis of Belgium pulled two New York Long Island railroad passenger cars totaling 80 tons with a thick rope, with a small bit attached, using only his teeth.
The Boeing 737 is nicknamed the Fat Albert.
Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
The expression getting someone's goat is based on the custom of keeping a goat in the stable with a racehorse as the horse's companion. The goat becomes a settling influence on the thoroughbred. If you owned a competing horse and were not above some dirty business, you could steal your rival's goat (seriously, it's been done) to upset the other horse and make it run a poor race. From goats and horses it was linguistically extended to people: in order to upset someone, get their goat.
