Fascinating Facts and Trivia

There is a Boring, Oregon and a Dull, Scotland. They have been sister cities since 2012.

King Henry VIII had a “Groom of the Stool”, whose job was to monitor and assist in the King’s bowel motions. The role remained in existence until King Edward VII abolished it in 1901.

Beer is one of the oldest recorded recipes in the world, with documentations of the beverage dating back to around 5,000 BC and the ancient Egyptians.

The Greek national anthem, Hymn to Liberty, has 158 verses.

It is also used by Cyprus as their national anthem.

Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”.

The Buddha commonly depicted in statues and pictures is a different person entirely.

The real Buddha was actually incredibly skinny because of self-deprivation.

Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author, hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains worth over 1 million dollars.

It still has not been found.

Elvis was originally blonde. He started coloring his hair black for an edgier look.

Sometimes, he would touch it up himself using shoe polish.

The reason the taste of artificial banana flavouring and artificial banana flavoured products doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950s.