Your Daily Facts 3-24
In the West the most popular male names are James and John. The most popular female name is Mary.
The name Wendy was first used in JM Barrie’s Peter Pan.
Lady Peseshet of Ancient Egypt (2600-2100 BC) is the world’s first known female physician.
The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.
Adriaan van der Donck was the first and only lawyer in New York City in 1653.
A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.
The British royal family changed their surname (last name) from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor, the name of their castle, in 1917.
Before writing 007 novels, Ian Fleming studied languages at Munich and Geneva universities, worked with Reuters in Moscow, and then became a banker and stockbroker.
Julius Caesar was known as a great swimmer.
There are more than 600 million telephone lines today, yet almost half the world’s population has never made a phone
call.
When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.
The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.
Queen Isabella of Castile, who dispatched Christopher Columbus to find the Americas, boasted that she had only two
baths in her life – at her birth and before she got married.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
There are four types of marriages: monogamy, polygyny (polygymy), polyandry, and group marriage. Monogamy is one wife, one husband. Polygyny is one husband, several wives. Polyandry is one wife, several husbands. Group marriage is by far the rarest and has never been the prevailing form of marriage in any known society.