Every queen by the name of Jane was killed, gone mad or sentenced to death.
Woodward Avenue in Detroit carries the mark “M1” because it was the first paved road anywhere in the world.
The last US state to introduce mandatory photo on the driver's license was New York, 1984.
If a book of average size would contain all of the insect’s names, it would have about 6.000 pages, as our planet has more than 900.000 known species.
The first SMS message was sent on 3 December 1992 when the programmer Neil Papworth sent a Christmas greetings to his friend Richard Jarvis through the "Vodafone" network.
In India for Christmas, a small number of Christians are decorating banana trees.
