Robbie Williams’s 1997 love ballad, ‘Angels’ was inspired by his uncle and aunt. According to Williams, he wrote it while sitting outside a café, watching a water fountain. Though the song never reached number 1, it was a huge hit in the UK, and in a survey, Britons chose the song as the one they’d most like to be played at their funeral.

At the Olympics, all countries bow their flags to the host country. Well, all but the U.S. When the flag-holder for the United States of America was asked in 1908 to do so at the 1908 London games, he allegedly responded with, “This flag dips to no earthly king.” Bit dramatic, but alright.

Zimbabwe was once a very rich country thanks to its mining and manufacturing of precious natural resources like gold and other minerals. Things went south for the southern African country though in 2008 when they experienced a 200,000,000% inflation on their currency, the Zimbabwean dollar. In 2015 the currency was reevaluated and discarded.