Vincent Van Gogh chopped off his entire left ear, not just a slice, and gave it to his maid whose son had been bitten by a street dog, not to a prostitute in a brothel
300 languages have gone extinct in India since 1947
Philistines were not uncivilised, reveal excavations at a 3,000-year-old cemetery
Toilet paper was used by the ancient Chinese—the fact left later Arab travellers intrigued
“Imran Khan” was the codeword for the male organ among Pakistani studs (according to Hanif Qureshi)
There are only two journalists left on Fleet Street, both sports journalists
Sophia Loren, Italy’s answer to Marilyn Monroe, was once so thin she was called ‘stuzzicadenti’ (toothpick)