Encyclopedia of Trivia

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from the Sidney Sussex College library in Cambridge, Massachusetts and returned 288 years l...

John William Friso, Prince of Orange was born on August 14, 1687. He is the ancestor of all European monarchs occupying the throne today. D...

Today is the anniversary of Pakistan gaining independence from the British Empire. Pakistan flag The political session of the All India Muh...

Jacob Perkins, the father of the refrigerator, is credited with the first patent for the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle, assigned on...

Recycling dates back to Plato who in the 4th cent BC wrote about the importance of making the most of waste products. Indra Sabha (1932) i...

The son of a Scottish minister, television pioneer John Logie Baird , was born in Helensburgh, a small coastal town in the west of Scotland ...

Today is the 13th day of the month of August. August is named after Augustus , first Emperor of Rome who chose it as it was the month of h...