"Every even number is the sum of two primes, according to the Goldbach Conjecture, which has been verified up to 19 digits."

"In 1590, starving Parisians ground human bones into bread."

"When Napoleon surrendered after Waterloo he assumed he would be allowed to see out his exile comfortably as a foreign monarch in Britain, writing to the Prince Regent to ask "for a country house ‘about ten or twelve leagues from London – a big enough house to accommodate all my suite’.""