The first Academy awards (or 'Oscars') were presented on 16th May 1929. The most successful person in the history of these awards is undoubtedly Walt Disney, between 1931 and 1969 he collected thirty-five 'Oscars'.
The river Nile has frozen over only twice in living memory…once in the 9th century, and then again in the 11th century.
St Francis of Assisi, who preached in favour of renunciation of all wealth, came from a very rich family.
On average an acre of green land contains some 50 thousand spiders.
During the 18th century, laws had to be brought in to curb the seemingly insatiable appetite for gin amongst the poor. Their annual intake was as much as 5 million gallons.
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