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.
English sailors came to be called Limeys after using lime juice to combat scurvy.
English soldiers were called Tommies because the example name on the soldier forms was Thomas Atkins. (The example name on US forms is John Smith.)
