| While in power, Stalin banned crosswords since he believed them to be 'bourgeois and degenerate'. |
| Clinton, Bush and Obama each won US Presidential re-election. The only other three consecutive presidents to win re-election: Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. |
| Among the moguls, only Aurangzeb treated treasury as separate from his personal income; other rulers made no such distinction. |
| Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland, had the longest monarchial reign documented lasting 82 years and 9 months! |
| The oldest surviving parliament is in Iceland. It first met in 930 AD. |