Spot the Difference

Drew Carey, host of ‘The Price is Right’, worked as a waiter and a bank teller before his career in comedy took off! The host, who is also a huge sports fan, sometimes works as an on-field photographer during pro games, including some of the games during the 2006 World Cup!

There’s a persistent belief that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by someone else – the Earl of Oxford, Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe being the top candidates. This questioning of authorship is mostly due to the bias of 19th century scholars who couldn’t accept that such brilliant literature was written by a mere commoner.

The Vikings have the reputation of being savage barbarians – however, that is not entirely true. They were mostly focused on establishing trade routes and had a complex and nuanced culture. The unfavourable image of Vikings as brutal raiders originates in written reports by monks, who were frequent victims of Viking pillages.