• One of the first records of juggling are murals at the 15th and 17th tombs at Beni Hasan in Egypt, depicting juggling women. [see more juggling hstory]
  • The Chinese Book of Lie Zi describes a warrior juggling seven swords at once (written over 2,300 years ago)
  • The patron saint of jugglers is St Julian the Hospitaller 
  • According to a passage in the Jewish Talmud, Shmuel could juggle eight glasses of wine without spilling a drop.
  • In the 1500s, jugglers in Ireland were required by law to pay some form of compensation to any audience members hurt by juggling accidents.
  • Props is the term used to refer to the objects that the juggler throws through the air.