Just looking online found these so
called facts, not sure if they are true, but if so are interesting?
Gustave Eiffel, designer of the
Eiffel Tower, enjoyed a successful career as an architect despite having
dyslexia and a paralyzing fear of heights.
Princess Diana had her navel
pierced - and fitted with a 2.8-carat diamond stud - just a few hours before
her fatal accident.
Archimedes endured a tragic fate at the hands of drunken Roman soldiers.
After forcing him to cut off and eat his own nose, they boiled him in oil.
“Well, at least
poor old Archi, would not be able to smell what he was eating!”
The striped mittenfish, a deepwater species recently discovered in the Java
Sea, can change its sex at will by turning its entire body inside out.
The lion used in the original MGM
movie logo killed its trainer and two assistants the day after the logo was
filmed.
“Makes me wonder
what happened to the poor thing whilst filming?”
Sesame seeds were so prized during
the Middle Ages that in some parts of the world they were worth their weight in
gold.
The face of Uncle Sam, the
fictional personification of the United States, has seen many changes of his appearance
over the years.
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