In Sweden over 570 daily newspapers are sold for every 1,000 of the population, making them the biggest newspaper-readers on earth. Rwanda in Africa has a population of ten million people but the total circulation of their only daily newspaper is just 200.

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Although America is named after the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, who made several voyages to the New World and drew up many important charts, it was another Italian, Christopher Columbus, born Cristoforo Colombo, who first reached the Americas in October 1492. Columbus had spent eight years to persuade the rulers of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella, to give him three ships and ninety men for the first voyage. His flagship, Santa Maria, was wrecked in Hispaniola and only two vessels returned to Spain. Later Columbus made three further voyages, probably touching the mainlands of both North and South America.

When the Hapsburg Emperor, Rudolf II, went mad, he allowed lions, tigers and other exotic animals and birds to run free in the empty galleries and corridors.
Napoleon Bonaparte, the Emperor of France, who came near to conquering the whole of Europe, was scared of cats.
The Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, changed her underclothes three times a day.
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The Great Pyramid of Cheops was built between 4,000 and 3,000 BC. It took 100,000 men twenty years to construct using 2,300,000 huge, stone blocks which weighed an average of two tonnes each. Forty men were needed to manhandle each block into place. It is the tallest pyramid at 146 m (480 ft). Read More: http://purpleslinky.com/trivia/20-interesting-weird-historical-facts-from-around-the-world/