Terrifying Details of Life in Royal Palaces That Will Stun You

Ye Olde Tinder

Before there were dating apps, there was a lot of sneaking around. Copulation with a spouse was forbidden unless you two were planning to make a child. Just thinking about sex was a crime, so those who wanted to partake outside of child making had to hide in foresrs from public humiliation.

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The More You Know

  • Benjamin Franklin was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
  • If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
  • 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.
  • The largest volcano in the solar system is three times taller than Mount Everest.
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