During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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Jason Earles played as a teenager in Hannah Montana, but he was actually born in 1977.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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There is a city called "Batman" in Turkey.
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Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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