Turnspit Dog – The Breed Of Dog That Ran On The Wheel
Lady Mary Bankes defended her castle for three years with her daughters and maids, throwing hot coal and buckets of boiling water on the attackers
There is a church in Rome lined with skeletons and a plaque that reads, “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”
The eerie ghost fleet at Suisun Bay: A collection of U.S. Navy and merchant reserve vessels that has been in the bay since the end of World War II
The act of drinking tea in the UK was introduced in 1662 by a Portuguese queen
Charvolants: the extremely elegant kite-drawn carriages
6 unbelievable cures for the black death
The woman who invented the chocolate chip cookies gave the recipe to Nestlé in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate
Thomas Jefferson owned a sheep and kept it in front of the White House where it attacked several people and killed a small boy in 1808
Until World War II, tea bricks were still used as a form of currency in Siberia
