London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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