Childhood friends William Harley and Arthur Davidson designed their first “motor-bicycle” in 1903
Horse racing in medieval England began when horses for sale were ridden in competition by professional horse riders to demonstrate the horses’ speed to potential buyers
The first volume of the famous Belgian comic “The Adventures of Tintin” was an anti-Soviet propaganda, indoctrinating young readers with anti-communist ideas
When tickets for the Freddie Mercury’s tribute concert went on sale, all 72,000 sold out in just three hours, though no performers were announced apart from the remaining members of Queen
Mark Twain, the writer of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was a prominent abolitionist and a women’s suffrage activist
Mexico’s “Olmec Colossal Heads” are a mystery as to their age and their method of construction
Bohemian Club is a 145-years old male-only leisure club for the wealthy and powerful
Miserere: The song written in the 1630s, performed only in the Sistine Chapel, was kept secret by the Vatican for 150 years
Bill Millin, the British army piper who played his bagpipes on Sword Beach during D-Day while under enemy fire, German soldiers didn’t shoot him because they thought he was crazy
Charlie Chaplin was nearly assassinated in Japan in 1932
