Encyclopedia of Trivia

At the climax of a Washington interracial march,  Dr Martin Luther King gave his famous "I had a dream"  speech to 250,000 follo...

The Beatles and Elvis only crossed paths once on August 27, 1965 at Presley 's home in Bel Air, California.  The NME  reported that Elv...

The first five-mile race at the  Indianapolis  Motor Speedway was held on August 19, 1909. 12,000 spectators watched a car win with the aver...

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...