#1. A pig was once executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
#2. The last person was executed for witchcraft in Europe in the last quarter of the 18th century.
Anna Göldi was admitted under torture to entering in a pact with the Devil, who had appeared to her as a black dog, and was executed on 13 June 1782 by decapitation in Switzerland.
#3. Johann Gutenberg printed his first Bible in Frankfurt.
In fact, it happened in Mainz, which is a bit further to the south-west, in 1455.
#4. Creator of the Mercator map projection Gerardus Mercator was German.
He was Flemish and came from a small village to the south-west of Antwerp, which now belongs to the Belgian province of East Flanders.
#5. English Christian mystic Margery Kempe who lived in the 14-15 cent. is mainly known for her autobiography.
Some consider it to be the first autobiography in English language.
#6. The utopian novel New Atlantis was written by sir Thomas Moore.
It was written by Sir Francis Bacon. Sir Thomas Moore’s book was actually called Utopia.
#7. Geoffrey Chaucer worked as a comptroller of the Customs for more than ten years.
He was, indeed, first a comptroller of the customs and subsidy of wools, skins, and tanned hides and later of the petty customs for wine and other merchandise until 1386.
#8. The first correction glasses made in Italy in 1290s consisted of a lens on a stick.
In fact, they consisted of consisted of two magnifying glasses riveted together by the handles so that they could grip the nose.
#9. Algernon Sidney, a member of the Long Parliament, was imprisoned for life for treason for his work Discourses Concerning Government containing objections to absolute monarc
Unfortnately, it was even worse. In fact, he was beheaded in 1683!
#10. Napoleon took part in invention of modern pencils.
But an officer of his army did! Nicholas Jacques Conte patented the modern method of producing pencil rods from mixtures of graphite and clays in 1795.
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