In the 16th century, French playing card makers started associating each king with a famous historical figure.
A dog earned a War Medal for the Strangest act of Bravery: Peeing.
During WWII, Juliana the Great Dane was awarded the Blue Cross Medal for an unusual act of heroism—she peed on an incendiary bomb and put out the fire! 💦💣
The name “Google” was an accidental creation
In 1997, Larry Page & Sergey Brin wanted to name their new search engine “Googol”—a math term for 1 followed by 100 zeros, symbolizing infinite data
A pig was once put on trial and executed
In 1386, a pig in Normandy was put on trial for murder after allegedly killing a child. The medieval court chained it up, held a full trial
Cleopatra lived closer to the iPhone era than to the construction of the Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid of Giza, built in 2560 BC, stood for over 2,500 years before Cleopatra even existed (30 BC)
Heartbreaking truth: The Croissant isn’t originally French
That buttery, flaky delight we all associate with France was actually invented in Austria!