Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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