1. The first European power to lay claim to California was England.

2. The Shah of Iran once threw a party that cost $100 million.

3. The first person to survive a fall over Niagara Falls was a woman.

4. The Diary of Anne Frank originally had a different title.

5. Paper money was first issued because of a shortage of coinage.

6. The first electronic pocket calculator appeared in 1941.

7. More Americans died in a hurricane than in battle during the years of the Revolution.

8. Concorde flights between England and the United States took a full day.

9. The world’s first iron bridge was built in England.

10. No stone bridges of antiquity spanned more than 300 meters.