Seigniorage is the difference between the cost of printing money and its face value.
Lock and Co. Hatters is the oldest hat shop in the world and still family owned since 1600s. They made personalised hats for Charlie Chaplin, Churchill, James Bond and the Royal Family.
Mamluks was a term for emancipated slaves turned nobles in the Muslamic world. There was a time when major dynasties from Egypt to India were all of Mamluks.
Most of the world's foreign ministers, heads of states, major bankers between late 1800s to early 1930s were Freemasons.
Contronyms are words that have multiple meanings that contradict each other. Left can also mean to leave or to remain.
Reuben Sturman is known as the Walt Disney of porn.
Dr. Crippins, a homeopathic doctor who murdered his wife and was fleeing to United States was the first person to be captured by wireless telegraphy. There is a hospital named after him in GTA San Andreas.
A country can give an application to UN to increase its maritime boundaries by proving that its coastal line has increased over time. Pakistan's maritime boundary was increased in 2015 after an application was given in 2009.