The average person living in Sweden eats about 22 pounds of chocolate a year.
Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.
In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.