Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, 3 fell due to earthquakes, 2 due to fires, 1 probably never existed, and only one stands today – the Pyramid of Khufu.

Chicago’s Lincoln Park was created in 1864. The original 120 acre cemetery had most of its graves removed and was expanded to more than 1000 acres for recreational use.

On September 6, 1522, the Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returned to Spain and became the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

Former President Cleveland defeated incumbent Benjamin Harrison in 1892, becoming the first (and, to date, only) chief executive to win non-consecutive terms to the White House.

Mice in fact do not like cheese. In the 1500s, cheese could be found in almost every house, even that of the poor, with no other choices of food around, mice would eat the cheese.

In 2012, Nepali farmer Mohammed Salmodin was bitten by a cobra. Before seeking help, he went home to get a torch, found the cobra, and bit it back. The cobra was killed instantly.

The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence – he invented dynamite.

The longest reigning monarch in history was Pepi II, who ruled Egypt for 90 years; 2566 to 2476 BC. The second longest was France’s Louis XIV, who ruled for 72 years, 1643 to 1715.

Trick-or-treating harks back to the Middle Ages and All Souls’ Day, when poor people in Britain would beg for soul cakes, a sweetbread treat, and pray for dead relatives in return.

The stereotype of the dumb blonde came from Rosalie Duthè in the 1700s, a blonde French debutante, who was well-known among Parisians, for being pretty, rich, but slow and stupid.

On June 26th, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. (The text of the charter was in five languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)

The smell of lavender can ease exhaustion, insomnia, irritability, and depression. In the Victorian era, women revived themselves from faints caused by tight corsets with lavender-filled pillows.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.

In the 1830s, Madame LaLaurie tortured her slaves in her attic by strapping them to operating tables and performing botched sex-change operations, bizarre amputations, and other horrific medical experiments.