Of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all named after artists and/or sculptors, Donatello does not occur in the same time period as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.
The abbreviation A.D. (Anno Domini, "Year of Our Lord") should be properly placed in front of the yea -- thus, you get 417 BC but AD 2000.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
The popular Fiesta Ware line of dishes sold well in the 1930s, except for the orange-colored sets. The reason? The paint used on the orange Fiesta Ware was radioactive.
Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels which were trained to walk in alphabetical order.
There were ten Johns, out of 102 people, on the Mayflower.
Susan B. Anthony's middle initial stands for Brownell.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
