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Qwerty keyboards were created to slow down the typing (and to split apart the letters often used consecutively).
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Almost a thousand horses died in the Lake Ladoga when the water suddenly froze.
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The Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry (and was not made in Bayeux).
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Castaways from the ship Utile have survived during 15 years on the small Tromelin Island, which is only 200 acres almost without any vegetation.
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Teresa of Ávila died in the night of the 4th to the 15th of October, 1582.
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The famous distress signal SOS (· · · — — — · · · in morse code) does not mean anything! For sure, it has no link with Save our souls which is a backronym.
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The famous anecdote that explains the absence of a Nobel prize in mathematics by the fact that Alfred Nobel’s wife cheated on him with some mathematician is false!
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The famous red telephone booth has been inspired by the dome of a tomb.
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The first French satellite was called Asterix. It was launched on 11/26/65.
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The famous sign “Peace” (☮) was the insignia of the Wehrmacht 3. Panzer-Division (1941–1945).
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Hiroo Onoda was one of the last japanese soldiers to surrender after the defeat of Japan in World War II. He was ordered to lay down his arms on the island of Lubang in 1974 (29 years after the end of WWII).
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In France, wearing a mustache is finally not mandatory for gendarmes since 1933.
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King Edward II of England (1284 – 1327) is believed to have been killed by the insertion of a red-hot iron rod in his rectum.
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In Ancient Greece, a man was considered more virile if he had a small penis.
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Arthur Rimbaud suddenly abandoned poetry in 1875, and was later known as a weapons merchant in Abyssinia.
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