Every queen by the name of Jane was killed, gone mad or sentenced to death.
Every 30.000 years riverbeds are deepened by a meter.
In 1666, the fire that destroyed most of the city of London, at the same time has ended the plague. Mostly because the fire killed infected rats who were the carriers of the disease.
A pearl can be found in one of a thousand oysters, and only in one of three thousand mussels.
Women are much more adept at reading backward and identifying hidden 3D drawings thanks to better ties between the two hemispheres of the brain.
American film “Mary Poppins” from 1965 was awarded five Oscars. One of them was for special effects in the scene where Mary Poppins is landing with the help of her umbrella.
