- Roman law gives cats squatters’ rights — wherever five or more cats live together in the city, they can’t be chased away
- With more than 900, Rome has the highest number of churches of any city in the world
- Romans invented concrete more than 2100 years ago
- More than $3000 a day is collected from the coins thrown in Trevi Fountain and given to the poor as rechargeable grocery cards
- Spaghetti and meatballs is not an Italian dish and is very hard to find in Rome
- Rome’s first shopping mall was built in 107-110 AD
- Cincinnati, Ohio, is named after the Roman figure, Cincinnatus (519-438 B.C.) who ruled for 16 days, before and after which he plowed his fields
- On Capitoline Hill at noon on April 21 every year, a special bell called Patarina rings to celebrate the founding of Rome
