A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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