Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
11
Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
18
Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
14
Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
37
In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
29
There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
15
The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
85