Insulted by Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds was found crying by Fred Astaire who helped her with the dancing in ‘Singin’ in the Rain’
The Crystal Palace, which hosted the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, was an architectural wonder of its time
A large manor has been found at the archaeological site of Korshamn near the Viking Age proto-town of Birka in Sweden
Charles Darwin’s cousin invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting, mathematical correlation and the concept of inherited intelligence
In medieval Europe, narwhal tusks were believed to be the horns from the legendary unicorn, and Vikings were probably selling them for tremendous amounts of gold
When Rudolph Valentino died in 1926, over 100,000 people swarmed the streets of New York City in riots during the funeral and several women committed suicide