During the Secession war troops would return to their cartels with a big sign that read “0 Killed”. From that, the phrase O.K. derived from.
If there is a statue of a person on horseback in the park, and the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg raised, the person died of wounds sustained in battle. If the horse has all of its legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
In Denmark there is a special military unit that uses dog sleds for official transport.
Kim Peek (54), the autistic genius who inspired the creation of a film "Rain Man", knew by heart the contents of 12.000 books. That are almost all the books he had read from the age of four.
The human orgasm lasts four minutes on average, while a pig’s orgasm lasts half an hour.
The first real airport was built in the Croydon near London in 1928.
