Facts

The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random.


When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.


Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups


When George I became King of England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for 32 years.


At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.


Upon the death of F.D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman became the President of America on 12 April 1945. The initial S in the middle of his name doesn't in fact mean anything. Both his grandfathers had names beginning with 'S', and so Truman's mother didn't want to disappoint either of them.


St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins and communist Russia.