There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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