What is an interesting fact about someone in history?

Cleopatra Was Not Egyptian  ,,, she was Greek

Mary Actually Had a Little Lamb

Everyone knows the nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb," but you probably didn't know this was based on true story. Her name was Mary Sawyer. She was an 11-year-old girl and lived in Boston and one day was followed to school by her pet lamb. In the late 1860s, she helped raise money for an old church by selling wool from the lamb.

Columbus did not discover America , he landed in the Bahamas , Leif Erikson landed in north america 500 years earlier

Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were born in the same year.   Because Frank died when she was a teenager we tend to think of her as perpetually a little kid.  Meanwhile, King, who died before he was 40, tends to be seen as older because of the immense impact he had.  But both of them were born in 1929, King in January and Frank in June.

It's been told that when Mary queen of scotts was beheaded by her b-*** jealous cousin Elizabeth, that her little dog was hiding under Mary's dress and ran out after she was decapitated.