- Jackie Robinson was the first black baseball player in the major leagues.
- The captain of a ship can perform marriages.
- Mussolini’s trains ran on time.
- Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839.
- The Mason-Dixon line was drawn to separate the slave South from the free North.
- Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag.
- Cleopatra was Egyptian.
- Chicago is called “the windy city” because of the gusts off Lake Michigan.