The longest-reigning monarch ever was Louis XIV of France. He ruled for 72 years, 110 days. Exhausting.
100 Mind-Blowing Louis Facts
The ice cream cone was invented during the 1904 St. Louis World Fair. The invention of this edible container was made when a Syrian named Ernest E. Hamwi used batter at his waffle booth to make cones. This was done to help out his neighbor who kept running out of serving bowls.
When St. Louis held the 1904 Summer Olympic Games, events included greased pole climbing, rock throwing and mud fighting.
Louis Armstrong played the trumpet so much that he got callouses on his lips. He cut them off with a razor blade.
The first camera needed an incredibly long exposure. The first photograph ever taken in 1826 took 8 hours to expose! The creator of that camera, Louis Daguerre, was able to lower that time drastically to just 15 minutes in 1839.