Hannibal had only one eye after losing the other to a disease he caught while attacking Rome.
There are about 5,000 different languages spoken on Earth.
The longest place name in Great Britain is that of a Welsh village: Gorsafawddachaidraigddan- heddogleddollonpenrhyn- areurdraethceredigion.
There is a band named A Life-Threatening Buttocks Condition.
All of Queen Anne’s 17 children died before she did.
Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same manner men do.
Thomas Jefferson anonymously submitted design plans for the White House. They were rejected. He was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all the band’s albums.
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
