Locals believed that the Angkor Wat temple was constructed in a single night by a divine architect
Ed Gein: The terrifying mama’s boy who inspired the creation of Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill
The Reichstag Fire: a pivotal event in the history of Nazi Germany
Kubrick’s last film, ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, set an actual Guinness World Record for “longest constant movie shoot” at 400 straight days
The Leaning Tower of Pisa was once a Nazi observation post; the allies abstained from ordering any strikes because of its beauty
The oldest tree in the world was alive when Stonehenge was under construction and around the time humans developed their first writing system
The Brussels Musical Instrument Museum has some of the rarest instruments from around the world in its collection
Hanukkah is celebrated with fried food, such as potato pancakes or jelly doughnuts, to commemorate the importance of oil
The “Manneken Pis”- one of Belgium’s most famous landmarks and the most fashionable statue worldwide
The FBI issued a memo about ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, qualifying it as a communist propaganda
