Ronald Reagan was a life guard during high school and saved 77 people's lives.
J.F. Kennedy (the 35th President of the USA), Aldous Huxley (an English writer, novelist and philosopher), and Clive Staple Lewis (an English novelist, poet and academic) all died on the same day, 22nd November 1963.
Albert Einstein was offered the role of Israel's second President in 1952 but he declined.
In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle draw to raise money, the giveaway prizes were live babies.
The Parliament of Iceland is the world's oldest functional parliament being established in 930AD.
Ancient Egyptians used slab stones as pillows.
Anna Mae Dickinson survived the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania, the Hindenburg explosion, the bombing of the Pearl Harbor, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, which destroyed her apartment.
In the 19th Century, sausages were marketed as 'bags of mystery'.
In the 16th and 17th century, wealthy Europeans ate corpses thinking they would cure them of ailments. They even ate the remains of Egyptian mummies.
A Roman Emperor Gaius made his beloved horse a senator.
Animals were put on trial in medieval times and routinely sentenced to death.
In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey in order to divert flies away from the Pharaoh.
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