Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’
Inka Uyu – The Inca’s ‘mushroom’ stones which may have stood within a temple of fertility
Emmett Kelly: The first sad hobo clown who was best-known for his character named “Weary Willie”
Confederate General Stonewall Jackson – champion of African-American literacy
The lawless San Pedro prison in La Paz, Bolivia, where the laws are created by the inmates
Evelina Haverfield – The Scottish suffragette and freedom fighter
Young Sean Connery earned the respect of a notorious Edinburgh gang by beating up six of its members at once
Sir Isaac Newton spent the final years of his life hunting money counterfeiters and convicting them to death
Carl Linnaeus wanted to create the “flower clock,” a garden that would tell the time through plants that open their flowers at different times of day
Benjamin Franklin pretended to be an old widow so that his letters could be published
