One another fact - in the ancienn Greece some of the athletes really competed naked. But all of them were male, and, besides no women were allowed in audience.

Everybody knows about about United States Independence war with Britain in 18th century. Many - about war of 1812 year, when British troops torched White House in Washington.

But there was one other US-British conflict in 19th century. The dreadful...

... Pig War of 1859!

Actually it was a...

Look at these images. Beautiful. In my heart of hearts, I would love to make an adventure game with this kind of throwback artwork. Look at that castle! It's incredible! So ominous and yet artful. The castle halls are gloomy and the art style enhances that gloomy feeling. Then the scary forest.

What the oldest soft drink company in the world? Why, it's Schweppes. It begun it's operation far, far earlier then Coca-Cola or Pepsi companies.

It begun production in the 1870s, and in the first years of operation it used hand-blown "lemon" or "drunken" bottles - they were supposed to be kept on

The first "modern" bottle caps were invented in 1892 and was the first highly-successful disposable product.

There was bottled carbonated drinks before, but they used other sealing methods. One of the most popular was so called codd-neck bottle (invented by Hiram Codd).

Everyone "knows" that Coca-Cola once had cocaine in it. But that fact actually is wrong.

Coca-Cola has an extract of coca leaves in it. Which is very different from cocaine and at best a mild stimulant.