Fun Facts: Part 1

Did You Know?

HISTORY

1. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

2. The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

3. Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain.

4. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.(WOAH.)
* Mark Twain is the author of the two great classic stories, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'.

5. The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (it is from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party.