Nottingham hides a network of ancient man-made caves used as a tannery, house cellars & air raid shelters …
Suffragettes pinned a White Feather as a symbol of cowardice onto men not serving in WWI
While NASA spent a large amount of money developing the Space Pen, the Soviets just used pencils
The first flight attendants were all registered nurses, this requirement disappeared when many nurses left to enlist during WWII
The Ovitz family – A whole family of dwarfs who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp
Connecticut Castle may be torn down
Apollo 11 lunar samples bag the focus of legal dispute after it was stolen and sold by former Space Center director
In 1600 one of the first Englishmen to land in Japan ended up a samurai and adviser to the Shogun
France gave the daguerreotype photographic process as a free gift to the world except to Britain. They had to pay
Some odd facts about life in ancient Rome
