Encyclopedia of Trivia

The association of rum with the Royal Navy began in 1655, when the British fleet captured the island of Jamaica. With the easy availability...

At age 17, French inventor Louis Lumière invented a new process for film development using a dry plate Thirteen years later, he and his bro...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope on March 13, 2013. Bergoglio chose his name to be called Pope Francis in order to pay tribute to St....

The position of a Venetian gondolier is extremely exclusive and difficult to attain. Only 425 licenses are granted each year, and applicant...

Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury. His father, Robert Darwin, was a successful local doctor, but was stern and cri...

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 into an illiterate and wandering frontier family. Lincoln's Birthday is a legal, publi...

In 1948 a young American just out of the army, Walter Frederick Morrison, applied for a patent for a plastic flying disc. It is said the ide...