Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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