From the Archives
- In 1796, a cow was elected MP ( British member of parliament ) to the house of commons in protest against the king.
- Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
- Charles Dickens kept the head of his bed aligned with the North pole, believing the earth's magnetic field would pass longitudinal through his body and ensure him a good sleep.
- Mark Twain did not graduate from elementary school
- Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
- Florence Nightingale's 1860 Notes on Nursing was the first text book for nurses.
- Benjamin Franklin never patented any of his inventions, feeling that they should be shared freely for the public good.
- King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.
- Choclate was once used as Currency.
- Rene Descartes came up with the theory of co-ordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tilted ceiling.
