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.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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