Encyclopedia of Trivia

Anne Boleyn , the second wife of Henry VIII, was beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest on May 19, 1536. Anne refused to be blindfolded ...

Christopher Columbus found himself anchored off the coast of Jamaica with dwindling rations due to uncooperative locals who refused to trad...

On February 16, 1937, the du Pont company patented their synthetic textile fiber calling it nylon . The letters "nyl" were arbitra...

The Sound of Music musical opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959. Both of the major New York critics hated i...

American entrepreneur Milton Reynolds first came across the Bíró ballpoint pen during a business trip to Argentina where they were first ma...

In the mid 1840s a Boston dentist called William Morton started to experiment with using ether to anesthetize a patient before extracting a...

Goalkeeper Brad Friedel is the current holder of the Premier League record for most consecutive appearances with 310, a feat he achieved dur...