Tom Cruise, a qualified submarine pilot, discovered the wreck of the 16th century galleon Santa Benice.

The first 3 Academy Awards had a category for Best Mime Artist.

The number 4668 was believed to have powerful spiritual powers by the religious group the Cathars.



Luton Town FC, an English soccer club, was invited to enter the Emperor’s Cup in Japan in 1928. They reached the 3rd round.

2008 saw more cars scrapped in the USA than manufactured for the first time.

If all the information stored in Wikipedia was transferred to ordinary print it would fill a library the size of San Diego.

JoJo, a squirrel, in Newfoundland was observed to hide and then find 12,700 acorns over the space of one year.

In 1930 Winston Churchill worked as an extra on the gangster movie A Blood Story.

Until 1860 it was thought that the formula of water was H4O2.

The Russian Post is the world’s largest purchaser of elastic bands.