When you study history in school, you may seem to be just memorizing random facts and details about important historical figures. While it's important to learn about the past, discovering some strange historical facts during the learning process makes learning even more interesting.
Whether you want to expand your historical knowledge or want to be a prodigy on your next night of random historical facts trivia, these 125 surprisingly weird historical facts and historical trivia are some of the most interesting details of the past.
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1. During World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded the Blue Cross. She extinguished an incendiary bomb by peeing on the bomb!
2. Alexander the Great was accidentally buried alive. Scientists believe Alexander suffers from a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome. They believe that when he dies, he is actually just paralyzed, mentally conscious!
3. Ancient Rome had female gladiators! Female gladiators are called Gladiatrix, or Gladiatrices. They are extremely rare and different from their male counterparts.
4. The most successful pirate in history is a lady named Zheng Shi (Shi Xiugu). She was a prostitute in China until the Commander of the Red Banner Fleet bought her and married her. However, her husband considered her equal to him, and she became an active pirate commander in the fleet.
5. You probably know they're a bunch of heroes who broke box office records with movies. However, the Avengers were also a group of Jewish Assassins who hunted down Nazi war criminals after World War II. They poisoned 2283 German prisoners of war!.
6. From 1912 to 1948, the Olympic Games held competitions in the field of fine arts. Literature, architecture, sculpture, painting and music were all awarded medals. It was clear that the artwork created had to be Olympic-themed.
7. The famous conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by a group of rabbits! He asked for a rabbit hunt for himself and his men. He had asked for a rabbit hunt for himself and his men. When the rabbits were released from their cages, the rabbits launched an unstoppable attack on Bonaparte and his men.
8. Cleopatra is not actually Egyptian! As far as historians know, the famous female killers in Egypt were actually Greeks! She was a descendant of the Macedonian general Ptolemy of Alexander the Great. She was a descendant of the Macedonian general Ptolemy of Alexander the Great.
9. Ketchup was sold as a medicine in the 1830s. In 1834, it was sold by an Ohio doctor named John Cook as a medicine for stomach upset. It was not until the end of the 19th century that it became popular as a condiment.
10. Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame? The 6-foot-4-tall president has lost just one of his roughly 300 games. He thus earned a reputation as an elite warrior in New Salem, Illinois.
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11. George Washington opened a whisky distillery after becoming president. After his tenure ended, Washington opened a whisky distillery. By 1799, Washington's distillery was the largest in the nation, producing 11,000 gallons of unleased whisky! This was his first income.
12.During the Salem Witch Trial, the alleged witch was not actually burned at the stake. Most were put in jail and some were hanged. But none of the 2,000 accused were burned alive.
13. President Zachary-Taylor dies of cherry overdose! Zachary Taylor died after eating too many cherries and drinking milk at a National Day party in 1850. He died of gastroenteritis on 9 July. The acid in the cherry, along with the milk, is thought to be responsible for this.
14. Andrew Jackson has a pet parrot. He also taught his parrot Polly to curse like a sailor. There is even a legend that this parrot had to be taken out at Jackson's funeral because he liked to talk dirty! This is Jackson.
15. Bloody Mary is not always called Bloody Mary! First of all, this popular brunch drink is actually called "a bucket of blood." After Bucket Of Blood, it transitioned to Red Snapper and, finally, spawned Bloody Mary.
16. In the ancient Olympic Games, athletes performed naked! This is to achieve the purpose of getting close to the gods, but also to detoxify by sweating. This is to achieve the purpose of being close to the gods, but also to help detoxify the skin by sweating. In fact, the term "gymnastics" comes from the ancient Greek words "gumnasía" ("athletic training, exercise") and "gumnós" ("nude").
17. In 1386, a pig was executed in France. In the Middle Ages, a pig attacked a child, who later died of his wounds. The pig was arrested, kept in jail, and then sent to court, where it was tried for murder, found guilty, and then hanged
18. During the Great Depression, people made clothes from food bags. People use flour sacks, potato sacks, and anything made of sacks. As a result of this trend, food distributors are starting to make their sacks more colorful to help people maintain a little sense of fashion.
19. In victorian times, it was normal to photograph loved ones after they had died. People would dress their recently deceased loved ones in their best clothes and then pose them in lifelike poses to take pictures of them. They did this to preserve the last image of their dead loved ones!
20. The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes! The war took place between Britain and Zanzibar and became known as the Anglo-Zanzibar War, which took place on August 27, 1896. The war was fought for the status of the next sultan of Zanzibar, and the result was a British victory.
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21. Tug-of-war was once an Olympic sport! It was part of the 1900-1920 Olympic calendar, appearing at 5 different Summer Olympics. The country that won the most medals was the United Kingdom, with 5 medals, and then the United States, with 3.
22.Oxford University has a longer history than the Aztec Empire. The first time Oxford was open to students dates back to 1096. In contrast, the Aztec Empire is said to have originated in the mexican city of Tenochtitlan, founded by the Mexicans in Lake Tescoco in 1325.
23. The most famous female serial killer is the Hungarian Countess Elisabeth Barthory de Echeid. She is accused of torturing and killing more than 650 young women. Most of them are between the ages of 10 and 14.
24. Russia ran out of vodka in celebration of the end of World War II! When the long war was over, street parties swept through the Soviet Union and lasted for days — until just 22 hours after the party began, the country's vodka reserves were depleted.
25. The first official Medal of Honor was awarded during the American Civil War. They were awarded to Federal soldiers who took part in the 1862 Lokomotiv Hunt.
26. In 18th-century Britain, pineapple was a status symbol. Those who are rich enough to own pineapples will walk around with pineapples as a sign of their personal wealth and high status. In that era, everything from clothes to household items was decorated with this tropical fruit.
27. In ancient Greece, they believed that red-haired people would turn into vampires after death! This is partly because red-haired people have white skin and are sensitive to sunlight. This is partly because red-haired people have white skin and are sensitive to sunlight. Unlike the Mediterranean Greeks, they had olive skin and dark features.
28. Ferrets, dogs, and monkeys were the most popular pets in the Roman Empire. The ancient Romans replaced cats with ferrets to hunt mice. They use dogs as guards and monkeys for entertainment.
29. Tablecloths were originally designed to be used as a large public napkin. When they were first invented, guests were meant to wipe off their hands and faces on the tablecloth after a chaotic dinner party.
30. Before alarm clocks and smartphone alarm clocks, there is a kind of person called knockers, they will really knock on people's windows and wake them up in time to work. Until the 1970s, knockers knocked on their customers' windows with a long stick, a soft hammer, a rattle, and even a pea shooter.
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31. The English poet and statesman Lord Byron kept a pet bear in his quarters while studying at Cambridge University. He was known as an avid animal lover, and when he found it impossible to bring his dog, he decided to bring a tamed bear to live on campus instead. It is understood that he even took it for a walk.
For more than 32.30 years, Canada and Denmark have been desperately vying for control of a small island near Greenland called Hans Island. Occasionally, when officials from each country visit, they leave behind a bottle of their country's wine as a symbol of power.
33. Legend has it that when St. Lawrence was roasted on an iron frame by the Roman governor during the persecution of Christians, he cheerfully declared, "I'm doing a good job here." "My side is already done. Turn me over! Because of this, he was sponsored by chefs, chefs and comedians.
34.In 1998, about 1,200 bones of about 10 human bodies were found in the basement of the Ben-Franklin home. Before you go and concoct a mystery about the murder of the Founding Fathers, it was revealed that the bodies were used to study human anatomy.
35. The highest married couple on record is Anna Henin-Swan, who is 7 feet 11 inches tall and Martin Van Buren Bates 7 feet 9 inches tall. When she gave birth, Swan's baby weighed 22 pounds.
36. In 1945, a balloon bomb fired by Japan landed in Oregon. The bomb landed on a woman and five children who died in the blast. It was the only World War II casualty incident on the U.S. soil.
37. Roman gladiators often become celebrities and even endorse products! Kids will even play with gladiator "action models" made of clay. Kids will even play with gladiators made of dirt "action models". In addition, their sweat is considered an aphrodisiac, and women mix it into skin care products.
38. Johnny Apuside is a real person! His real name was John Chapman, and his hometown was Leominster, Massachusetts. His real name is John Chapman, and his hometown is Limünster, Massachusetts. He also has a street named after him, though city planners decided it would be more poetic to use his mythical name: Johnny-Epside Lane.
39. The car was not invented in the United States! The first car was actually created in the 19th century, when European engineers Carl Benz and Emile Levassol were working on automobile invention. Benz patented the first car in 1886.
40. Abraham Lincoln was also a licensed bartender. In 1833, the 16th president and his friend William F.Berry opened a bar called Berry and Lincoln in New Salem, Illinois. The store was eventually closed because Berry was an avid alcoholic who consumed most of the store's supply.
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41.Vladimir Pravik was one of the first firefighters to arrive at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986. The radiation was so intense that it made his eyes change color from brown to blue. Like most first responders to a radioactive catastrophe, Vladimir died of severe radiation poisoning after 15 days.
42.The Roman Catholics of Bavaria founded a secret society in 1740 called the "Pug Dog". New members must wear a dog collar and scratch at the door to enter. This quasi-Masonic was reportedly active until 1902!
43. King Henry VIII of England had servants known as "stool grooms" whose job it was to wipe his butt after he had finished the toilet. During his reign, he knighted all four of them.
44. Fourteen years before the sinking of the infamous Titanic, writer Morgan Robertson wrote the novel Futile. It tells the story of the large unsinkable ship Titan that crashed into an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Even stranger, neither the Titanic nor the fictional Titan had enough lifeboats for the thousands of passengers on board – coincidence?
45. Between the 11th and 19th centuries, some Buddhist monks succeeded in mummifying themselves. They took a practice known as "awakening," gradually cutting off food and water, and essentially starving themselves to death over the course of a thousand days. It is believed that by successfully mummifying themselves, the monks will attain true enlightenment.
46. The ancient Romans often used old urine as mouthwash. The main component of urine is ammonia, which can act as a powerful cleanser. The demand for urine was so great that the Romans who traded in urine actually had to pay taxes! "。
47. During the reign of Pope Gregory IX, he declared that cats were associated with the worship of the devil and extinct them. Some believe that the disappearance of these cats helped rats spread the plague, also known as the Black Death, which killed millions of people in the 13th century.
48. Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, a Russian mystic and friend of Tsar Nicholas II, is said to have drowned in the Volga after being poisoned, shot and stabbed countless times.
49. From the 1940s to the 1970s, Yale And other Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Vassar, and Brown university demanded nude photos of their freshmen. The aim was to gather material for a large-scale study on how rickets developed, which involved inserting needles into the backs of male and female subjects. Generations of national elites who have been in the Ivy League have posed, and archives include nude photographs of prominent figures from george W.Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Meryl Streep. The photos were destroyed after the news leak and the research was condemned.
50. The Luftwaffe had a master interrogator, Hans-Sharf, whose strategy was to be as friendly as possible. The best strategies for schaff to get information from prisoners included: taking natural walks without guards present, baking homemade food for them, telling jokes, drinking beer, and having afternoon tea with the ace pilots of German fighter jets. His technique was so successful that the U.S. military later incorporated his method into their own interrogation school.
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51. In ancient Asia, being killed by an elephant was a popular form of execution. They can be taught to slowly break bones, crush skulls, twist limbs, and even execute people with large blades mounted on ivory. In some parts of Asia, this method of execution was still popular until the end of the 19th century.
52. The use of forks was once seen as blasphemous. Widely used eating utensils were once seen as acts of blasphemy and offense against God. Why? Because they are "artificial hands", they are considered profane.
53. Mary, there is indeed a lamb. Her name was Mary Sawyer. She was an 11-year-old girl who lived in Boston and one day her pet lamb followed her to school. In the late 1860s, she helped raise money for an old church by selling sheep's wool.
54. As early as the 16th century, wealthy elites ate corpses. It is rumored that these corpses can treat diseases. The most exclusive delicacy? The mummies of Egypt.
55 Winston-Churchill usually smoked eight to ten cigars a day, sometimes as many as fifteen. During Prohibition, when he came to visit the United States, he would get a doctor's certificate saying he needed to drink "indeterminate" alcohol.
5.61 billion years ago, the Sahara Desert was inhabited by galloping crocodiles. At that time, the Sahara Desert was a lush oasis full of life, full of predators. In 2009, fossil hunters discovered the remains of crocodiles with large terrestrial legs that were able to gallop on land at breakneck speeds!
57.Before the 19th century, dentures were made from the teeth of dead soldiers. After the Battle of Waterloo, dentists ran to the battlefield to look for teeth from thousands of fallen soldiers. They then take the bounty to their dental clinic and make them into dentures for the edentulous elite to use.
58. The Roman Emperor Gaius, also known as Caligula, made one of his favorite horses senators. The Emperor was so fond of his horse, named Incitatus, that he gave it a marble stable, an ivory manger, a collar studded with jewels, and even a house, and Caligula allegedly planned to make his reliable horse archon before he was assassinated.
59. Sure, we've all heard of the Boston Tea Party, but what about the Boston Syrup Disaster? On January 15, 1919, a 90-foot-wide cast iron can filled with viscous molasses exploded, spilling 2.5 million gallons of crude molasses onto the streets of Boston. The brown thing swept through the streets like a tsunami, with waves up to 15 feet and speeds of up to 35 miles per hour. Syrup destroyed everything along the way, overturned buildings, flooded horses, and ultimately killed 21 people and injured 150.
60. When Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were beheaded, it is said that handkerchiefs were soaked in their blood to preserve as souvenirs. In 2011, a team of scientists confirmed that a blood handkerchief from about 1793 was soaked in the blood of Louis XVI.
61.In 1644, the British politician Oliver Cromwell forbade eating pies. He declared that this was a form of hedonism for the pagans. For 16 years, eating and making pies went underground until the leaders of the Restoration lifted the ban on pies in 1660.
62. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the founding fathers and the second and third presidents of the United States, died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Adams' last words were "Jefferson is still alive," and he didn't know his old friend had died earlier that day.
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63. Joan of Arc persuaded Charles VII that she could lead his army without experience. She crushed the British, jumped from a 60-foot tower without being injured, framed as a heretic, and burned at the stake, all between the ages of 17 and 19. She was guided by a voice that only she could hear.
64.1883 The sound emitted by the krakatoa eruption was so loud that it ruptured the eardrums of people 40 miles away, circled the earth four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away. It's like standing in New York and hearing voices from San Francisco.
65.The railways of South Africa once employed a baboon. During all his years of service, he never made any mistakes.
66. The Tale of Two Lovers is a pornographic novel and one of the best-selling books of the 15th century. It was written by Pope Pius II before becoming Pope.
67. It is believed that about 97% of history has been lost over time. Written descriptions of history began about 6,000 years ago. Modern humans first appeared around 200,000 years ago.
68 Before Julius Caesar invaded England, many Romans did not believe in the existence of England. Julius Caesar was the first Roman ever to invade England. He invaded twice, in 55 and 54 BC. Some Romans believed that Britain was just the foot of another huge northern continent. Others think it's a place full of incredible wealth, while most people think it simply doesn't exist.
69. The Soviet Union tried to stifle the memory of Genghis Khan. During the reign of the Soviet Union at the end of the 20th century, the mere mention of the name of the great Mongol conqueror was a crime against the Soviet Union. The Soviets removed his story from school textbooks and forbade people from making pilgrimages to Kentia, his birthplace.
70. The guillotine was invented to create "equality in execution". Before the guillotine appeared and was widely used, the French method of routine executions was quite barbaric. Punishments like being whipped and landing on all fours are common. The idea of the guillotine as the main method of execution was part of the French movement for equality, which spurred the revolution to take place.
71. Adolf Hitler helped design Volkswagen's Beetle. Between Hitler and Ferdinand-Porsche, this iconic bug-like car was designed as part of Hitler's revival of Germany's initiative to create an economical and practical car that everyone could have.
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72. The ancient Egyptians made pillows with stone slabs. In ancient Egypt, the head was considered the site of spiritual life and had to be pampered. Therefore, when going to bed, the Egyptians would put their heads on a stone with a curved shape.
73. The earliest known works of art date back about 100,000 years. It is believed that it began with Homo sapiens in the upper Paleolithic period. The oldest known artwork was found in a cave in what is now France.
74. During World War II, Americans referred to hamburgers as "free steaks." This is because "Hamburger" sounds a bit too German. In addition, during World War II, sauerkraut was re-called "free cabbage".
75.The Dutch-Sicilian War lasted 335 years without any fighting or death. The war, which spanned from 1651 to 1986, was a by-product of the English Civil War, and the Dutch decided to side with the members of Parliament rather than the royalists. The royalists attacked several Dutch ships in retaliation before fleeing to the Skili Islands. The Dutch appeared, demanded reparations from the royalists, and declared war when they did not pay. But they found that the royalists did not have a penny in their names and decided to take it home, which was wise. The only problem was that they never declared war on the archipelago, just completely forgot that they were in the war.
76. Adolf Hitler's nephew fought the Nazis in World War II. During World War II, William Patrick Hitler (later William Patrick Stewart Houston), who was drafted into the U.S. Navy, served as a hospital nurse until 1947. He was wounded in battle and awarded the Order of the Purple Heart, followed by U.S. citizenship.
77. The fastest surgeon ever ended up with a 300% mortality rate – shocking, right? Surgeon Robert Liston is considered "the fastest knife in the West". He was a pioneer in rapid surgery. During a battlefield amputation in front of a crowd of spectators, Liston cut open the patient's leg with such speed that he accidentally cut off the fingers of the people who were helping him. A man who witnessed the operation collapsed and died of a heart attack. Liston's patient and his assistant then died of blood poisoning from arthrotomy, making him the only surgeon in history to have a mortality rate of as high as 300 percent.
78. During the Great Depression there were "dance marathons". These men's endurance races are a way to provide roofs and days of food to financially unstable married couples. The dance partners would take turns sleeping while the other person supported them and continued to dance with them.
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79. One in every 200 men is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. The Mongol emperor was known for having at least 11 children. A study conducted by scientists in 2003 showed that one in every 200 men shared the Y chromosome with this conqueror.
80. In the Victorian era, bearded men used special cups. These specially made cups are pragmatically called "beard cups" and have protective devices on them that prevent men's beards from dipping into their warm teacups! "。
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81. The year 46 BC had 445 days, the longest year in human history. This year is known as the Year of Chaos, with two additional leap months inserted by Julius Caesar. This was done to align his newly formed Julian calendar with seasonal years.
82.As early as colonial America, slaves could win their freedom through litigation. While the odds of success were low, winning in court meant that the slave was now a citizen. Since slaves usually had no surname and needed to have a surname to become citizens, they were usually given only the surname of "free man".
83. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight. Famous for its four-degree tilt, this Italian bell tower was built in the 12th century. When construction of the second floor began, the tower began to tilt due to the construction on unstable ground.
84. Iceland has the oldest parliament in the history of the world. It is known as Althing, founded in 930 and has been Iceland's acting parliament ever since.
85. Alexander the Great named more than 70 cities after himself. Alexander the Great conquered more than 2 million square miles of land on the earth's surface at the age of 30, so naming the city after himself is well deserved.
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86.Cleopatra was the first member of her dynasty to speak Ancient Egyptian. She also speaks 8 other languages, including Ancient Greek, Ancient Iranian, Ancient Parthian, Syriac, Ethiopian, Troglodytae, Hebrew and Arabic.
87. The National School Lunch Program of 1946 in the United States was due to World War II. This is due to the government's awareness that by giving children free meals, they will have a healthier conscription team if they need it again.
88. Paul Tibbetts was the pilot of the "Emira-Guy" aircraft that dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, and he had no funeral or tombstone. As he approached death, Tibbetts decided not to have a funeral or tombstone because he feared it would become a place to protest nuclear armaments. Instead, he was cremated and his ashes scattered across the English Channel.
89. In medieval England, the word "ask" was pronounced "axe". This pronunciation of the word even appeared in the first English translation of the Bible. "Axe and it shall be given"。
90. In 1710, Native American leaders traveled to England to visit Queen Anne. Four Mohawk kings and algongi from one of the five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy received high courtesy as diplomats. They traveled through the streets of London in royal carriages and were received by the Queen herself in the courtroom of St. James's Palace.
The 91.7.62 mm rifle bullet was born 129 years ago. AK47 ammunition was developed by the Russian Empire in 1891. This ammunition was originally designed for the Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle and is still in use today.
92. Shakespeare invented the "Yo, Mommy" joke. In his play Titus Andronix, one of the characters, Carron, exclaims, "You ruined our mother," and Aaron, the other, replies, "Little man, I ruined your mother."
93. Hollywood moved from New York to Los Angeles to escape Edison's patents. Thomas Edison has more than 1,000 patents for different things, including most of the technology needed to make high-end movies. So the independent filmmakers moved to California, to areas where the judges were less friendly to Edison and his patents.
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94. Charles Darwin invented his own wheeled office chair. The famous researcher found that in his study area, he had to walk around the office, from one bench to another, from one desk to another, such a tedious procedure. So, to maximize his productivity and save some valuable study time, he decided to install wheels on his plush armchair.
95. Rome's largest circus is still the largest stadium ever built. It was used to execute prisoners, was part of the Roman Triumphal Festival, and was also the venue for chariot racing. Historians believe that the largest circus could hold between 150,000 and 250,000 people at any one time.
96. The Spartans were very wealthy and no one needed a job. Ancient Sparta was an extremely wealthy country. Mainly because they conquered and ruled their neighbor, the Helottes. When a Spartan boy came of age and became a man, the Spartan state granted him the right to distribute a piece of public farmland. They also rewarded him with a group of Helotite slaves to cultivate it.
97. The ancient Egyptian pharaohs treated their slaves as flycatchers. They would coat the slaves with honey so that they could attract any flies to the slaves instead of themselves, while also trapping and killing the flies.
98. At the Triumphal Ceremony in Rome, the soldiers amused the masses by singing obscene songs about their commanders. The Triumph of Rome is a bit like a procession, where Roman generals and their armies parade through the streets to celebrate their conquest of new territories for Rome. There are many customs of celebration during the triumphal period. One of them was the returning Roman soldiers singing vulgar and banal songs to their commanders to please the crowd
99. Despite such legends, George Washington did not have wooden teeth! The dentures of the first U.S. president were made of gold, lead and ivory, and were a mixture of animal and human teeth. The luxurious dentures of the first president of the United States are made of gold, lead and ivory, and are also made from a mixture of animal and human teeth!
100 The word "saved by the bells" does not come from people being buried alive. Because of the bells hanging from the coffins, people mistakenly believe that the word "saved by the bells" comes from the fact that people were saved by these coffin bells. However, the term actually comes from boxing.
101. One person survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and later Nagasaki. Hiroshi Yamaguchi, a 29-year-old naval engineer, is on a three-month business trip to Hiroshima. He survived the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945, although he was less than 2 miles above the ground. On August 7, he boarded a train back in his hometown of Nagasaki. On Aug. 9, when he and his colleagues were in an office building, another loud noise broke the sound barrier. A flash of white light flashed through the sky. Yamaguchi came out of the ruins and broke through the walls, and apart from his current injuries, he suffered only minor injuries. He experienced two nuclear explosions in two days.
102. Since the end of The First World War, more than 1,000 people have died from unexploded bombs left behind. During the War, an estimated 200 pounds of explosives were fired per square foot of territory on the Western Front. However, not all of these shells exploded. Since 1919, in France and Belgium, more than 1,000 civilians and ordnance collectors have died from explosions caused by these.
103. Albert Einstein rejected the presidency of Israel. Einstein was not a citizen of Israel. However, he was Jewish. The German-born physicist was invited to the post, but declined in 1952, saying that "I was deeply moved by our proposal for the State of Israel, and at the same time sad and ashamed that I could not accept it." I have spent my whole life dealing with objective affairs, and as a result, I lack the talent and experience to deal with people and perform official functions."
104. Thomas Edison did not invent most of the things he patented. Arguably, Edison is one of the most notorious intellectual property thieves in the world. Of the 1,093 things he patented, he went from Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm Röntgen and Joseph Swann (the first to invent the light bulb!). And so on the genius stole most of it.
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105. Genghis Khan was tolerant of all religions. One reason for this was his interest in learning philosophical and moral aspects from other religions. He often consulted Buddhist monks, Muslims, Christian missionaries and Taoist monks.
106. Captain Morgan is a real person! The spokesman for the wildly popular rum brand was a Welsh privateer who fought the British against the Spaniards in the Caribbean. His full name was Sir Henry Morgan, who was knighted by King Charles II.
107. The turkey was once worshipped as a deity. The Maya believed that turkeys were containers for the gods and revered them in a worshipful manner.
108. Fox throwing used to be a popular sport. In the 17th and 18th centuries, fox throwing was popular among the elite class of Europe, and fox throwing refers to the fact that a person throws a fox as far away as possible!
109 The saying "fly out of the handle" originated in the 19th century. This phrase refers to cheap axes flying away from the handle of the axe as they swing forward and backward before chopping.
110. 4% of normandy beaches are made up of shrapnel from the D-Day landings. As a prelude to the Normandy landings, the Allies dropped more than 5,000 tons of bombs on the Axis Powers. Scientists studied the sand on the beaches of Normandy and found tiny fragments of shrapnel that had been smoothed out during the landings.
111. A Japanese fighter pilot once threw a wreath over the ocean to commemorate the deaths of both sides during World War II. In December 1940, during a naval battle in the Pacific, two Royal Navy ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Shallow Water, were sunk by Japanese fighter jets. The next day, Japanese flight lieutenant Haruki Iki flew to the battle site and threw two wreaths on the surface of the sea.
112. An ancient book called the Voynich Manuscript still confuses scientists. The Voynich manuscript was handwritten in an unknown language and its carbonization time was about 1404-1438. Over the years, hundreds of cryptographers and crackers have tried to decipher it, but no one has succeeded in grasping its meaning or origin.
113. The weapons of the Eastern Roman Empire were called Greek fires and were used for ship-borne flamethrowers. What makes this weapon so unique and deadly is that throwing water on it only fuels the fire. It is mainly used in naval warfare because the large flamethrowers required for its projection use can be better accommodated by ships than infantry.
114. During the First World War, the French built a "fake Paris". This "fake Paris" has a repeat of the Champs Elysées and the Garden of the Nord, built by the French before the end of World War I. It was built to get rid of German bombers and fighter pilots flying over France.
115. All British tanks have been equipped with tea making facilities since 1945. 30 tanks were destroyed by the Germans while the British soldiers were drinking 15 minutes of tea, and the British top brass realized that if the tank crew could make tea on the road, then they would not be easily seized by the enemy, take off their pants, and take out the kettle.
116. Shrapnel is named after its inventor. British Army officer Henry Shrapnel was the first to invent lethal shells, which can transport large quantities of bullets to targets before they can be released.
117. Cleopatra's reign was closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great Pyramid. This Egyptian royal family reigned from 51 BC to 30 BC, about 2500 years after the completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza and about 2000 years before the first lunar landing in 1969.
118. In ancient Greece, wearing skirts was a man's business. In fact, the Greeks regarded trousers as feminine and would laugh at any man who wore them.
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119.The British government collects postcards as intelligence for the D-Day landings. It was an intelligence gathering exercise. Initiated by Lieutenant General Frederick Morgan, he was looking for the most difficult beach to defend. These postcards were sent to the War Department, helping to shape part of the decision to choose Normandy as the final D-Day landing site.
120. The Vikings were the first to discover the Americas. Half a century before Christopher Columbus, Greenland's Viking chief Leif Eriksen landed on Newfoundland in 1000 AD. The Vikings led by Leif-Eriksen settled on the island of Newfoundland and were found and settled in Labrador further north of Canada.
121. The Colosseum was originally completely clad in marble. When you visit or see the Colosseum now, you will notice that the appearance of the stone appears to be covered with pedant points, all over its surface. The cause of the pockmark was that after the fall of Rome, the city was looted and plundered by the Goths. They took all the marble from the Colosseum and peeled it off to the bare stone.
122. Augustus Caesar was the richest man in history. Emperor Augustus was the nephew and heir of Julius Caesar, and his net worth is estimated at $0.46 trillion, taking into account inflation.
123. Only 6 people died in the Great Fire of London. The great fire of 1666 was apparently caused by a baker's oven and caused great damage throughout the city of London. However, despite destroying more than 13,500 homes and displacing 80,000 people, it took the lives of only 6 unfortunate Londoners.
124. Count Dracula was inspired by a real man. The prototype of the nominal count is none other than Vlad the Piercing Man of history. As the monarch of Wallachia (a Romanian region of Transylvania), Vlad soon earned himself a terrible reputation by killing the bodies of his enemies and nailing them to long sticks outside his castle, leaving them still twitching.
125.The U.S. World War II army was the largest in history. Partly due to the rise in American patriotism and conscription, the U.S. army had 12,000,000 soldiers at the end of the war in 1945.