The Jaquet-Droz Automata: mechanical wonders from the 18th century, considered by some to the ancestors of the modern computer
Frédéric Bourdin, also known as “The Chameleon”, was a serial impostor who claims to have had over 500 false identities over the course of his life
It is said that Cleopatra, Queen of Ancient Egypt, took baths in donkey milk to preserve her beauty and youth
The Benben stone is an obelisk-like stone that was symbolic of the primeval mound of creation in Heliopolis