History

There are over 300 bodies on Mount Everest that cannot be recovered and serve as trail markers for other climbers. The best known are the frozen corpse of Hannelore Schmatz and an unknown climber known as "Green Boots" because of his neon green boots.
The "sandwich" is named after an English nobleman, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. This goes back to the fact that he had sandwiches made as a snack while playing cards.
The meteor responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs hit the coast of Yucatán, Mexico. The crater is still preserved today.
Charlie Chaplin once took part in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and lost.
Inhabitants of the Ivory Coast are called Ivorians. The term comes from the official country name "Cote d'Ivoire".
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is actually a bell tower.
The movie Titanic lasts just as long as the real ship sank.
The shortest war in history (England against Zanzibar) lasted only 38 minutes.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex probably had feathers.
The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart.
Sharks have been on earth longer than trees.
600 million years ago, a day on Earth had only 21 hours.
Matches were invented 3 years after the lighter.
The first cell phone call was made in New York City on April 3, 1973.
The oldest known work of art (as of 2019) is located on the island of Sulawesi and is around 44,000 years old.
The 3000-year-old mummy of Pharaoh Ramses II was given an Egyptian passport in 1974 so that it could be flown out to Paris for restoration.
"Vomitorium" referred to the corridor in an ancient amphitheater through which the audience reached the rows of seats.