https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/1999-12-17/75094/
The first pizza delivery was in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito, owner of Pietro il Pizzaiolo in Naples. The recipients were King Umberto I and Queen Margherita. Refusing to go to the likes of a pizzeria, the queen ordered in.
Adolph Hitler received royalties for postage stamps that bore his portrait.
The Anglo-Saxons apparently didn't have any swear words. What we now call "crude Anglo-Saxon epithets" actually originated in the latter Middle Ages and came from Holland.
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