Queen Margrethe II was the first Danish monarch not named Frederik or Christian in 459 years.
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascended the throne in 1972 as the first Danish monarch not named Frederik or Christian since 1513.
She was succeeded by her son, Frederik X, in 2024.
Emma Morano’s live spanned three centuries.
Born in 1899 in Civiasco, Kingdom of Italy, Emma Martina Luigia Morano died in 2017 at the age of 117, in Verbania, Italian Republic.
She survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and 90 Italian governments.
We still understand little of the Etruscan language.
Although the Etruscans influenced the ancient Greeks and Romans —the Romans even used Etruscan characters to create our current Latin script— we only have limited understanding of the Etruscan language.
In Sweden, 29 February 1712 was followed by 30 February.
The country had switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar but a mistake caused it to be two days out of sync with others.
In 1712, it reverted to the Julian calendar and added two leap days as a fix.
The Soviet Union was the largest country in the world.
During its existence from 1922 to 1991, the Soviet Union covered 22 402 200 square kilometres reaching Central Europe in the west and East Asia in the east, spanned eleven time zones and bordered twelve countries.
The southern African Guagga went extinct in Amsterdam.
Guaggas were a subspecies of Africa’s Plains Zebra.
Staff at the Amsterdam Zoo ‘Natura Artis Magistra’ didn’t know they had been looking after the last remaining specimen of the species when it died in 1883.
Brandolini’s Law holds that “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it”.
Also known as the ‘bullshit asymmetry principle’, the adage was coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini after a Berlusconi debate.
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