The first: fewer and fewer mummies
Egyptian mummies were originally numbered in the tens of thousands, but now they are extremely scarce, so how did they disappear? You may not believe it, they were all eaten by people... In the 19th century, Europe began to eat mummy powder, at that time people believed that eating mummy powder, it is very likely to obtain divine power, and can cure all diseases, and at that time it was recognized that the best mummy was the mummy of ancient Egypt... Until 1902, mummy powder was still available in major pharmacies in Europe, and this powder could be applied externally and taken orally... Due to the great demand, the smuggling industry of Egyptian mummies was born in the market, and thousands of mummies were continuously sent to European medicinal herb stores in the underground channels that were opened... It is then processed into a powder and sold to those in need...
The second: extinct plants
In ancient Rome, there was a plant called "Sylphium" (shown in the picture), which had contraceptive effects, so it was used by people at that time to make various birth control and contraceptive drugs, but because the ancient Romans used it too much, it eventually led to the extinction of this plant.
The third: ancient dentures
In ancient times, there was no modern technology for making dentures, so people used the teeth of soldiers who died on the battlefield to make dentures, although they are called dentures, but they are real real teeth... This practice continued until around 1860, when a new process for making dentures was invented, and it gradually withdrew from the denture market... At that time, the most used on the market was the "Waterloo Tooth"...
Fourth: A professional singer who was delayed by a fart
In 2011, 33-year-old American opera singer Amy Herbst said on the Internet: When she gave birth, the doctor performed a completely unnecessary episiotomy on her, which caused serious damage to her genitals, accompanied by flatulence and incontinence, and since then she will not be able to control her fart, and even seriously affect her singing career... So, she and her husband filed a $2.5 million claim against the government... Actually, I feel like she's a little bit less...
Fifth: The secret of the chrysanthemum
Salvador Dalí is a famous Spanish painter whose paintings are known for their surrealism. In the course of his many years of painting, he discovered a secret about "chrysanthemums"... He found that everyone's "chrysanthemum" looks similar, but it is completely different, just like a person's fingerprint, and each person's "chrysanthemum" is unique... And each "chrysanthemum" is basically composed of thirty-five to thirty-seven creases... If you don't believe me, you can look in the mirror and study it yourself when no one is at home...
Sixth: Coffee culture
In traditional Turkish culture, coffee occupies a pivotal place, even surpassing everything at some point... Even in the 15th century, there was a clear provision in Ottoman Turkish law that if a husband did not provide his wife with a certain amount of coffee, resulting in her wife not having coffee to drink, then the wife had the right to divorce her husband... And it will be supported by the government ...
Seventh: The one who keeps his word
During the First World War, a man named Robert W. C. Campbell's British captain was captured by the German army and subsequently imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp... After two years in prison, he received the news that his mother was critically ill and asked the Kaiser for leave, saying that he needed to go home to see his mother, and that he would return after taking care of the house... Unexpectedly, the Kaiser agreed to his request and let him go home to visit his mother... And even more outrageous is that Robert M. C. Campbell returned to the prisoner of war camp as agreed after taking care of his family affairs... And remained in the prisoner of war camp until the war was completely over ...
The eighth: the logician who was starved to death
The man wearing glasses in the photograph is an Austrian-American logician named Kurt Gödel. Since he suffers from persecution paranoia, he doesn't believe anyone but his wife and always feels that someone wants to poison him... So, every time he eats, he asks his wife to try it first, and he will eat it only after he has nothing to do... In 1978, when his wife was seriously ill and admitted to the hospital, he began to refuse food from anyone... In the end, he starved himself to death...
The ninth: the finger that was cut off by himself
In 2019, when a man in Hangzhou was working in the mountains, he was bitten by a poisonous snake on his finger, and it was also found to be a highly poisonous five-step snake. And in a panic, he lost his severed finger... After being taken to the hospital, the doctor said that there was no need to cut off the finger at all... Since then, the man has lost his index finger forever and has been disabled for the rest of his life...
Tenth: Scary truth
On June 24, 1962, a British Airways plane accidentally flew into a layer of volcanic ash on its way to New Zealand, and soon after the cabin began to smoke, the passengers on board panicked, and the scene was on the verge of collapse... At this time, the captain's voice sounded in the voice system of the plane: Dear passengers, our plane has encountered a little problem, although now the four engines on the plane have all been turned off, but you don't have to worry too much, we are trying our best to control the plane... The passengers on the plane were all stupefied... Thankfully, the plane landed safely...
Eleventh: The last words of "deathbed".
In 2006, James Washington, an American man, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a crime, and one day after he was imprisoned for 3 years, he suddenly suffered a heart attack, and it was very serious... Feeling that time was running out, he confessed to the head of the prison before his "death" that he had murdered a woman 15 years ago... However, because of the timely rescue, he survived... In the end, his sentence was commuted from 15 years to 51 years...
Twelfth: You don't have to be so inferior
Many people know that women will choose breast augmentation or use chest pads in order to get a better figure, but in many large-scale small movies in the United States, many male actors will choose to wear prostheses during filming in order to make themselves more majestic and cover their shortcomings, and they can reach the point of being fake and real, looking like the original... So, you don't have to be so inferior...
Thirteenth: Operation Geist
During the U.S.-Vietnam War, the U.S. launched a psychological warfare called "Operation Wandering", in which the U.S. military installed groups of high-powered speakers on helicopters, and then began to play the simulated sounds of the ghosts of North Vietnamese guerrillas on a loop, while using terrifying sounds similar to those in ghost movies to persuade Vietnamese soldiers to surrender as soon as possible or flee the battlefield quickly...
Fourteenth: Rolls-Royce Golden Waistline
All Rolls-Royce custom gold waistlines are hand-painted by this man named Mark Court, and the price of each Rolls-Royce custom waistline ranges from about $100,000 to $600,000... This is a proper IQ tax... But at least it doesn't pit the poor...
Fifteenth: High telephone bills
A Polish environmental agency to study the birds' migratory Xi placed a GPS tracker on a white stork, which flew about 6,000 miles before losing signal in a valley in Sudan... Shortly after this, the agency received a bill of up to $2,700 for phone bills... After investigation, it was found that a local person picked up the signal tracker in the woods, then removed the SIM card inside and installed it on his mobile phone, and used it to make calls for more than 20 hours...