The 1939 Gadsby novel is the longest book ever written that doesn’t contain the letter e.

Pakistan is an acronym. The country’s name is based on the Muslim territories of Northern India in the 1930s: Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sind and BalochisTAN, with an ‘I’ to make it easier to pronounce.

All people with blue eyes can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea less than 10,000 years ago.

100 years ago, in early 1920, Walt Disney began working at the Kansas City Slide Company, a business that specialized in movie advertising, where he became fascinated with the growing innovations in film arts.

Percentages are reversible. 8% of 25 is the same as 25% of 8, which is a lot easier to do in your head. That’s because ‘of’ means ‘to multiply’ and the order of multiplication doesn’t matter.