Gerald Ford assumed the presidency following the resignation of Richard Nixon.

David “Screaming Lord Sutch”, as leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party, was Britain’s longest serving party leader until he hung himself in June 1999.

Half the world’s population earns about 5% of the world’s wealth.

George Washington was the first president under the US constitution of 1789. However, the US was an independent nation for 13 years before the Constitution was signed. For one year during this time John Hanson served as “President of the US in Congress assembled.” Technically, he was the first president of the United States.

India is the world’s largest democracy with more than 600 million voters.

14 of the 45 vice presidents have become president:
5 vice presidents have been elected to the presidency: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, and George Bush.
4 vice presidents assumed the presidency after the president was assassinated: Andrew Johnson, Chester Authur, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson.
4 vice presidents assumed the presidency after the president died of natural causes: John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry Truman.

James K. Polk’s inauguration was the first to be reported by telegraph.

He also gave the White House it’s official name in 1901. Before, it was known as President’s House, President’s Palace, and Executive Mansion.

Martin Van Buren was the first president to be born as a U.S. citizen.

President Rutherford Birchard Hayes never knew his father, who died a few months before he was born.

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be born outside of the original 13 colonies.

The 12 disciples were not were not allowed to carry food, money, or extra clothing.

There are 66 books in the Bible, 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.

The longest word in the Bible is Maher-shalal-hash-baz: Isaiah 8:1.

III John has the fewest number of words of any book in the Bible.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say there were three wise men – Matthew 2:1 only says: “Magi from the east came to Jerusalem” and later they present three gifts. More

St Paul wrote 14 (of the 27) books of the New Testament.

The high jump method of jumping head first and landing on the back is called the Fosbury Flop.

Gymnasiums were introduced in 900BC and Greek athletes practised in the nude to the accompaniment of music. They also performed naked at the Olympic Games.

About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.

Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.

Yet, by 1905 80% of cars were petrol driven and by 1920 the electric car was, well, almost history.

New York cabs get about 2000 tickets per month, handed out by about 2000 traffic attendants.

In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird outsold the Chev Corvette 24 to one.

The world’s earliest known plank-built ship, made from cedar and sycamore wood and dated to 2600 BC, was discovered next to the Great Pyramid in 1952.

In 1913, the Russian Airline became the first to introduce a toilet on board.

The world’s oldest surviving boat is a simple 3 metre (10 feet) long dugout dated to 7400 BC. It was discovered in Pesse Holland in the Netherlands.