The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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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 first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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