The Doctrine of Signatures was a medieval European theory that plants which in some fashion resembled a body part would help ailments of that body part; for instance, under this theory, wlanuts were supposed to be good for head ailments.

Google reported almost $10.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2006.

The first institutional library to have a printed catalog was Leiden University in The Netherlands. Their library had a printed catalog in 1595.

Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton are both buried at Westminster Abbey.

The title Tsar (equivalent to Emperor) was only used in three countries – Russia, Bulgaria, and Serbia.

The Wikipedia article on Western culture is shorter than the Wikipedia article on Knuckles the Echidna.

Point Nemo is the farthest point in the ocean from any land. It’s in the Pacific, in the middle of more than eight and half million square miles of ocean.

From 1793 to 1806, the French used a decimalbased calendar. Each day had 10 hours, each hour had 100 minutes, and each minute had 100 seconds.

The Cannes Film Festival was started as a protest to the interference of the fascists governments of Italy and Germany in the selection of films for the Venice Film Festival.

Jimi Hendrix was left-handed, and mostly played right-handed guitars turned upside down.