That time when the fountains at the Gardens of Versailles consumed more water per day than the entire city of Paris
Teti’aroa: The wondrous atoll in the Pacific widely known for having been purchased by Marlon Brando in the 1960s
The Greek engineer Ctesibius of Alexandria is credited with inventing the pipe organ in the 3rd century B.C. and improving the clepsydra, the most accurate clock for more than 1,800 years
From Vikings to Roman gladiators: Puy du Fou theme park in France is the real deal for all avid travelers
Horse racing in medieval England began when horses for sale were ridden in competition by professional horse riders to demonstrate the horses’ speed to potential buyers
The first volume of the famous Belgian comic “The Adventures of Tintin” was an anti-Soviet propaganda, indoctrinating young readers with anti-communist ideas
When tickets for the Freddie Mercury’s tribute concert went on sale, all 72,000 sold out in just three hours, though no performers were announced apart from the remaining members of Queen
The Lafayette Theater in Harlem became the first major theater which did not segregate African-American audiences in New York
The oldest tree in the world was alive when Stonehenge was under construction and around the time humans developed their first writing system
Pohela Boishakh is the first day of the Bengali calendar, observed in Bangladesh and parts of India, and the current year is 1422