Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Ri’ab was Muhammad’s first cousin and the first notable Muslim to convert to Christianity. He did so while seeking refuge in Ethiopia.

Wheel-well stowaways on airplanes have occurred more than one hundred times and have a fatality rate of over 70%. Most of the offenders are young men. One of the most notable incidents involved Keith Sapsford  from Sydney, Australia, who fell 200 feet (60 m) to his death from the wheel well of a Tokyo-bound Japan Air Lines Douglas DC-8 on February 24, 1970, shortly after takeoff from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.

The word “auxiliary” comes from the Latin auxiliārius, meaning “helping” or “aiding,” which is derived from auxilium (“help,” “aid,” “support”).

The English word “hour” ultimately comes from the Ancient Greek hōra, meaning “time,” “season,” or “year.” It was borrowed into Latin as hora, meaning “hour,” and that form remained unchanged in Spanish and Portuguese.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has a husband who is 32 years older than she is. Despite being “very conservative” and “Christian” they had a baby out of wedlock and only married shortly before Donald Trump was inaugurated.

The sport of cricket’s version of a home run is called a Six.

There is only one place in America where Burger King is not allowed to operate: Mattoon, Illinois. A Burger King restaurant there, unrelated to the national chain, opened before the Burger King we know today was founded in Florida. A lawsuit determined that the national Burger King could not operate within that part of Illinois, and the small restaurant could not expand beyond its territory.