Due to the earths rotation the sea level in the western end of each ocean is up to 2 meters higher than sea level at the eastern end of the ocean. (Great Courses – Oceanography)

The bomb used at Hiroshima was a uranium bomb using the ‘trigger’ method. There wasn’t enough uranium to make any other uranium bombs so the first test at Trinity and the Nagasaki bomb were plutonium bombs using the ‘implosion’ method to trigger the device. (Book – Day of Trinity – Lansing Lamont)

When Hitler started his acquisitions of Austria and Czechoslovakia Italy was not an ally of Germany. Italy was wary of German expansion due to their own interests in that area.  By the time Germany attacked Poland in 1939 Italy had become an ally but still did not declare war on the Allies. (Book – The Second World War Volume 1 – Winston S. Churchill)

The Magna Carta was meant to be a peace treaty between King John and many of his barons. It didn’t work as civil war broke out in less than a year. After Prince John died the advisors of his successor Henry III reintroduced the document with some significant changes in order to undercut the barons who had asked Prince Louis of France to take England because they despised King John so much.  This revised document is the one that survived as the basis for future laws. In honor of JFK  the British gave the United States one acre of land at Runnymede. (Book – 1215:The Year of the Magna Carta – Danny Danziger)

There is no evidence that Martin Luther actually pinned his 95 Theses to a church door in 1517. This myth has become so widespread that it is often incorrectly quoted as fact by most people. (Great Courses – The Renaissance, Reformation and Rise of Nations)

It is a myth that Rome sowed the earth of Carthage with salt after Carthage was defeated. (Great Courses – The History of Ancient Rome)