According to a study by British scientists, 63.6% of professional football players experience a grave breach while playing football.
Isaac Newton was kicked out of school. He was expelled as a teenager at the request of his mother, who wanted him to become a farmer.
In the middle ages, nutmeg was the most expensive spice. Not because of the taste and smell, but because of the belief that it protected against the plague.
The first ice cream was made in the 18th century in the Sicilian town of Taormina with the help of snow from the slopes of Mount Etna, the only live volcano in Europe.
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.
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.
