In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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