What is the most useless historical fact you know?
 

For Example: <BR><BR>In the middle ages through the mid 17th Century men's pants were secured by being laced to their jackets (doublets) with laces tipped with metal, referred to as points. <BR><BR>Any takers?

Anne Boleyn had 6 fingers on one hand.

Ancient Egyptian men used squat down to pee, like women.

The horse that Paul Revere rode on his midnight ride was a mare.<BR><BR>(Happy Independence Day, America!)

The Marquis De Sade never acted on any of the fetishes he described in his writng.

A trencher was a piece of rough bread which high born medieval folks used as a plate. Once they were finished they were not eaten but given to the poor <BR>as alms.<BR><BR>US

"Vanity Fair" author William Thackeray's middle name was <BR>Makepeace.<BR><BR>or <BR><BR>The body of Saint Mark was stolen from Moslem-ruled Alexandria by Venetians and smuggled out in a barrel of pork<BR>

-<BR>Alexander Graham Bell suggested using the word "Ahoy" when answering his new invention, the telephone.<BR>

Supposedly, the real inventor of the telephone (Meoucci) didn't get credit for inventing it because he didn't have the money for the patent application.<BR><BR>Antoni Gaudi was run over by a trolley and taken to a homeless people's hospital because no one recognized him. He died three days later.

Moses stuttered.

Beef Stroganoff was invented by 16th century Russian explorer Count Stroganoff, who traveled with a frozen block of beef and shaved off pieces, which he cooked in sour cream with potatoes.

Rex, Capo, Hiho and Elaine were the first posters on this forum, in that order.

Da Vinci was gay.

So were Michelangelo and Carravaggio.

Joseph Stalin, whose real name was Jugashvili, was a highway bandit in his youth, until he joined the Communist movement, which he found more lucrative.

Renaissance depictions of St. Sebastian pierced by arrows are considered some of the most blatant examples of homoerotic art of the period.

The real inventors of the telephone were a German, Philip Rice and an American, Elisa Gray. Bell saw Rice's telephone at an expo in London and improved it for commercial use. He and Gray arrived at the Patent office on the same day but Bell was first.

Philip Freneau, an American Revolution-era poet, died when he was caught in a blizzard while walking home from a tavern, age 80.<BR><BR>He was not gay and didn't invent the phone.

The last casualty in armed conflict between the United States and The United Kingdom was a pig.

James Rumsey invented the steamboat at Shepherdstown, Va (now WV) on the Potomac River.<BR><BR>US<BR><BR>PS He also was not gay!