It is estimated by researchers that approximately 30% of hemophiliacs got the condution through spontaneous gene mutation, and not through inheritance.

During World Ward II, the Allies only shot down one V-2 rocket, out of over 3,000 that were fired.

Pine needles and the bark of pine trees have vitamins A and C in them.

Mice can carry a virus known as the mouse mammary tumor virus. Most mammary tumors in mice as caused by this virus, and research shows that it may also be responsible for some human breast cancer.

The failed Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes almost setting off barrels of gunpowder under the House of Lords in 1605) involved 18 barrels of gunpowder, which would have not only reduced The House of Lords to rubble, it would have killed everyone within 100 meters, and broken all the stained glass windows in Westminster Abbey.

The smallest classification of a bonsai, keshi-tsubu, only applies to bonsai’d trees that are up to 2.5 centimeters tall.

The Servile Wars were three slave rebellions against the republic of Rome. They started with about 70 men, and during the third (and final) rebellion had at least 120,000 escaped slaves.

The world’s largest picnic is a yearly affair, usually on the first Saturday in August, at Fancy Farm, Kentucky. The population of Fancy Farm was 600 as of 2003, and the estimated attendance numbers for the picnic are 12,000 to 15,000.

The only monarch to ever later be elected head of the same government he reigned over is Simeon Saxe-Coberg-Gotha, who was the last tsar of Bulgaria and also its prime minister.

According to the Supreme Court, states can pass laws that prohibit illegitimate children from inheriting. For instance, in Illinois an illegitimate child can only inherit from their mother.