Ancient drinkers warded off
the devil by clinking their cups
The Nobel Prize resulted
form a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after
his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
The cost of the first
pay-toilets installed in England was tuppence.
Pogonophobia is the fear of
beards.
In 1647 the English
Parliament abolished Christmas.
Mao Rse-Tang, the first
chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, was born 26 December 1893. Before his rise to
power, he occupied the humble position of Assistant Librarian at the University of Peking.
Coffee is the second largest
item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol.
King George III was declared
violently insane in 1811, 9 years before he died.
When George I became King of
England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for 32
years.
Only 1 child in 20 are born on the
day predicted by the doctor.
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116
years.
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