Category: Fun Facts

The Vatican City has a number of unique claims to fame, but one of the lesser known facts is the way in which it is able to guard itself. You see, this is the only country in the world that is able to protect itself at night by simply closing and locking the gates. In […]

Even though we could look at World War I or World War II as a whole, and state that they were both bloody battles, we are looking more closely at individual battles that took place. So, when you bring things down to a narrower field, which battle is actually the bloodiest in not only history […]

Even though there are clearly no definitive numbers available, there are various Biblical scholars that have sought to gather together the different evidence for the number of deaths that appear in the various books. Of course, this then leads to a lot of scholarly debate, but the figures that get the most attention are rather […]

Drugs are bad for you due to their addictive properties as well as the way in which they can destroy lives. Obviously, there are a number of different types of drugs out there for you to choose from, but it then opens up the question as to which drug is the most widely used in […]

Whenever you look at a silver Dollar, then you are going to lay eyes on the image of an eagle, but what a lot of people do not know is that this image is based on an actual real eagle that went by the name of Peter. Yes, it is hardly imaginative, but then getting […]

Money. We all want more of it due to the way in which it changes our lives, but have you ever taken the time to find out where this all-important word comes from? As with a number of things in the English language, we have to go back to the time of the Romans to […]

The Mayan civilization existed in the area that we now know as Mexico, and they were often regarded as being quite fierce when it came to battle. However, it does seem to be the case that they were willing to try a number of different tactics in an attempt to gain the upper hand. In […]

The problem with politics and standing for election is that you need to come up with a pretty good slogan that has the ability of making you stand out from the crowd. However, it is not always as easy as you think, and there are occasions where it has gone very wrong indeed for the […]

If you go back several centuries, medical advice and knowledge was certainly far more primitive than it is today, but that is not something that we should ridicule people for. Instead, it makes more sense to try to understand the reasons behind some of their apparent cures, especially when you discover that they did not […]

People often believe that they are unable to start the day until they have had their first coffee, but the truth of the matter is that this is the wrong thing for us to do. Instead, when we wake, our brain is already very active at helping us to get our energy levels up to […]