Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.
Armoured knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
I'm not sure the frog one is true, but speaking of armoured knights, I saw Henry the VIIIs armour at the Tower of London years ago. If you've ever seen it, you know where this is headed.... He had an enormous codpiece, apparantly it was the fashion of the time. A picture (I feel this could be mannequin smut, but it is historical fact):
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