Tea bags were invented accidentally in 1904 by Thomas Sullivan, who intended to send small samples to customers instead of boxes.

In the 16th century, gin was referred to as “mother’s ruin” because people thought it could induce an abortion.

In 2008, archaeologists found a 7th century lead tablet in cyprus that said, “May your penis hurt when you make love.”

Before Prohibition, the most common form of drinking beer at home was drinking it out of a bucket filled at a local pub or brewery.

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber, and the first execution by lethal gas took place in February, 1924.

Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.

On April 12, 1938, the state of New York passed a law requiring medical tests for marriage license applicants, the first state to do so.

About 1.4 million earthquakes happen annually. The largest earthquake ever measured had a magnitude of 9.5, in Valdivia, Chile, in 1960.

If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.

The 1st nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, commissioned by the United States Navy in 1954, made her maiden voyage on Jan. 17, 1955.

Genghis Khan killed enough people to cool the Earth. 40 million people were killed and vast areas for farmland were reclaimed by forests.

In 2004, 200 women in India, armed with kitchen knives, murdered a serial rapist. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.

Draco, Athenian law-maker, was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre circa 620 BC.

The first losing candidate in a US presidential election was Thomas Jefferson. He lost to John Adams. George Washington had been unopposed.