Having visited many of the world's most famous antiquities, I learned a lot of things I never knew about ancient Rome and its amazing people. Here are just a few:
- Every Sunday afternoon, Pope Urban VIII and Galileo would go out for Chinese.
- All the skulls in the catacombs are from people who were once alive!
- The modern Papal Apartments have surround-sound.
- Many Roman scholars believe Michelangelo invented chocolate milk.
- Cardinals are not allowed to live blog NFL games, but bishops are. Figure that one out!
- The Vatican dry cleaning bill is over $1 million a year, and that doesn't even include the drapes.
- When Emperor Constantine issued his proclamation legalizing Christianity, he simultaneously issued a proclamation outlawing handball.
- In ancient Rome, the concepts of "reality tv" and "gay pride" did not exist.
- The pagans had hundreds of unreliable gods. We only have one.
- One week after Pope Stephen II named Charlemagne the first Holy Roman Emperor, the two men, playing in a 3-on-3 game, invented the give-and-go. It would take over three centuries for the Phoenicians to introduce the pick-and-roll.
- The original Papal States included Siena, Florence, Venice, and parts of modern-day Michigan.
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