Flame of a match reaches 1930 degrees Celsius!
The magazine "Time" proclaimed Adolf Hitler "person of the year" in 1938.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered one of the most prolific composers of classical music. By the time he reached thirty-five, he wrote about a thousand compositions.
Every 30.000 years riverbeds are deepened by a meter.
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.
France was still using the guillotine when the first “Star Wars” movie was released.