“She sells seashells by the seashore” was written about a female paleontologist from the 1800s. She actually sold dinosaur bones and fossilized shells.
Niels Bohr was gifted a house with free beer for life on winning the Nobel. A beer pipeline was connected from the Carlsberg brewery next door to his house. Bohr stayed there from 1932 until his death in 1962.
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. This is because guinea pigs are social animals, and they are considered victims of abuse if they are alone
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the first 3D Zelda game for the Nintendo 64, was originally rumored as going to be played entirely in first-person perspective.