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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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The greek playwright Aeschylus was killed by a tortoise, dropped on his head by an eagle.
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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 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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Orson Welles asked Walt Disney to make an adaptation of “The Little Prince” with him. Walt Disney refused.
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Nicolas Sarkozy never graduated from Sciences-Po (French School of Political Science) due to an insufficient command of the English language.
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James Brown has served 3 years in prison (from 1988 to 1991). He was convicted of carrying an unlicensed pistol and on drug consuming charges.
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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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Arthur Rimbaud suddenly abandoned poetry in 1875, and was later known as a weapons merchant in Abyssinia.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only man who survived both atomic bombs (at least the only that was officially recognised)...
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Charlie Chaplin secretly took part in a Chaplin look-alike competition in San Francisco. He came in third.
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Mansuetus and Lynx, Spontex administrators, got married in fall 2007.
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Osama Bin Laden and Chuck Norris celebrate their birthdays on the same day!
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The modern pizza (as we know it nowadays) has been invented in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito.
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Georges Washington used to grow cannabis in his garden.
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