India celebrates Children's Day exactly nine months after Valentine's Day.

"There are friends one makes at a youthful age in whom one simply rejoices; for whom one possesses a love and loyalty mysteriously lacking in the friendships made in after-years no matter how genuine." ~ William Styron

It was legal in 1913 America to mail your children. The stamps affixed to said offspring's clothing cost 53 cents.

Old-fashioned crisps used to come with a packet of salt giving the purchaser the choice whether to salt their chips or not.

Wine is not always strictly vegetarian. Various animal products are often used to filter out organic particles.

Albert Einstein worked as an electrician at Oktoberfest 1896.