From 1912 to 1948 the Olympic Games gave out medals to Writers, Painters, Musicians
A German who travelled to Australia in a kayak, only to be arrested as an enemy alien
The Flechettes – A peculiar weapon of the First World War
Popcorn became popular during the Great Depression because it was fairly inexpensive
Behold the mustache cup: The special tea cup used by the Victorian men to protect their mustache from getting dunked into the tea
Masabumi Hosono was the only Japanese person to survive the Titanic, he lost his job and was dubbed a coward in Japan for not dying with the other passengers
The German flying ace who fought until the end – ‘I have run out of ammunition. I’m going to ram this one. Goodbye.’
David Niven was the only British star in Hollywood to enlist during WWII
America’s first female self-made millionaire was an African American woman
Living to fight another day – how WWII made pizza a global phenomenon
