Mozart gave music lessons to Beethoven. – 

  Hippopotamuses are most closely related to whales.

  Nicholas Cage received an Oscar nomination for his role in Adaptation after director Spike Jonze told him to ‘ignore all of his acting instincts’.

   Alligators are native only to the United States and China.

 Former president Gerald Ford turned down contract offers from both the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions so he could attend law school at Yale.

   Only around 35% of Americans have passports. The figure is an all-time high. –

   1 in every 50,000 people who run a marathon die from a heart attack within 24 hours of finishing it

  The Labrador Retriever was bred in Newfoundland, and the Newfoundland dog was bred in Labrador. –

When John F. Kennedy met Joseph Luns, the former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy asked for his hobbies and he answered: “I fok horses”, Kennedy, struck with surprise responded: “Pardon?”, Luns replied: “Yes, paarden!”. ‘Fokken’ means ‘to breed’, and ‘horses’ means ‘paarden’ in Dutch

   Maine is one of the only two states in which you can reliably text 911 in an emergency. 

   Benjamin Franklin misspelled “Pennsylvania” on purpose when designing the state’s currency in order to thwart counterfeiters.

  There is the church in Belgium made of horizontal steel columns.By standing at the same height as the structure, you can see through the slats and it appears almost transparent, making landscape behind the church visible.

   Bob Marley’s wife, Rita, was shot in the head during his attempted assassination. However, she had dreadlocks so thick, they saved her life. –

  Mark Spitz, nine-time Olympic champion, jokingly told the Russian swim team coach in 1972 that his mustache increased his speed in the water, deflecting water away from his mouth. The next year, every Russian swimmer was sporting one. – 

Wearable Eyeglasses Have Been Around Since 1284

It’s illegal in Florida to charge more to pay by credit card, but legal to offer a discount to pay by cash. 

   If you tried to watch every video on YouTube, you would fall behind more than two days for every minute of video you watched. –

  n 1938 Mexico was the only country to protest against the German annexation of Austria.

   The largest private employers in the world, are located in Taiwan. 

   Anna Jarvis, the woman who founded Mother’s Day, tried to get the holiday revoked when companies began to commercialize it for profits. 

   The oldest national park in the world is located in Mongolia.

   During the Cold War, the CIA considered dropping enormous condoms labeled “medium” over the Soviet Union to demoralize the Soviet male population. 

  72% of US online shoppers have a PayPal account. –

   In 2016, a team from Nigeria won the English Scrabble World Championship by using a revolutionary strategy of short words.

   The founder of Bitcoin is someone called Satoshi Nakamoto. Nobody knows who he is, what his real name is or where he lives. He holds 1 million Bitcoins, equivalent to $1.1 billion. 

  The longest prison sentence in history was for 384,912 years that was given to a mailman for not delivering mail

  n Ancient Egypt, bread was one of the most important food staples; it was eaten daily by both rich people and the lower classes. Following ancient recipes, the bread has a rough texture with a shiny exterior and tastes nutty. – 

   Abraham Lincoln never joined any church, and some of his closest friends rejected the idea that he was a believing Christian.

  Nearly 80% of people who die from drowning in the USA are male.