The first woman ambassador was Russia's Aleksandra Kollontai (1872-1952) who was elected in 1923 to be the Soviet ambassador to Norway.
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.
Famous composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), died of a liver failure. The researchers found that by examining the DNA of one of his strands of hair.
In 1898 Nikola Tesla successfully demonstrated a “ship with a remote control” as a continuation of the research on radio frequency.
Our kidneys have many tubes; if we would merge them, they would form a long thin tube 65 kilometers long.
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.
