Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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