Casanova, the greatest adventurer and lover of his time, ended his life as a librarian. He died quietly at the job.

Attila the Hun was a dwarf.

Beethoven poured ice water over his head when he sat down to create music, believing it stimulated his brain.

President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other—simultaneously!

Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other, also simultaneously.

President Taft weighed 352 pounds.

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe all died on July 4th, Jefferson and Adams died at practically the same minute of the same day.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most popular president ever to hold office in the United States, did not carry his home of county of Dutchess, New York, in any of his four elections.

George Washington was not the first president of the United States. The first president was John Hanson, Maryland’s representative at the Continental Congress. On November 5, 1781, Hanson was elected by the Constitutional Congress to the office of “President of the United States in Congress Assembled.” He served for one year.

A person’s nose and ears continue to grow throughout his or her life.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

The average person’s hand flexes its finger joints 25 million times during a lifetime.

During pregnancy, the uterus expands to 500 times its normal size.

Human nails and hair do not grow after death. They are simply the last part of the body to disintegrate.

The nose cleans, warms, and humidifies over 500 cubic feet of air every day.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

Christopher Columbus had blond hair.

Edison never went to school—his formal education consisted of three month’s attendance at a public school in Port Huron, Michigan.