The company Chanel claims that every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world, a bottle of Chanel No 5 is sold.

When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.

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