The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
10
The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
174
In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
12
In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
56
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
117
Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
13
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
80
Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
50