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Fun Facts about World HistoryTRANSCRIPT
- 1. WORLD HISTORY
- 2. Did you know?
- 3. The ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
- 4. The total number of Americans killed in the Civil War is greater than the combined total ofAmericans killed in all other wars.
- 5. The Hundred Years War actuallylasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
- 6. Roman Emperor Caligula made hishorse, Inciatus, an official Senator of Rome.
- 7. There are 92 knowncases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
- 8. Despite popular belief,Napoleon Bonaparte stood56 tall. Average height for men in the early 1800s.
- 9. Did you know?
- 10. Only two people signed theDeclaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776.The majority of others signed on August 2nd, 1776.
- 11. Influenza (Bird Flu) caused overtwenty-one million deaths in 1918. So much for the swine flu.
- 12. Leonardo Da Vinci designed the firsthelicopter, tank, submarine, parac hute and ammunition igniter over 500 years ago.
- 13. Did you know?
- 14. In ancient China, doctors couldreceive fees only if their patient was cured.If their health deteriorated, the doctor would have to pay the patient.
- 15. The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- 16. Seven of the eight US Presidents who have died in office - eitherthrough illness or assassination - were elected at precisely 20-year intervals.
- 17. The great conqueror, Attila the Hun, died from a nosebleed.
- 18. Did you know?
- 19. During the US Civil war, 200,000 African Americans served in the Union Army; 38,000 gave theirlives; 22 won the Medal of Honor.
- 20. The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by two thirds , nearly 50 millionpeople in a 4 year period from 1347 to 1351.
- 21. Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
- 22. King Henry VIII married 6 times! He divorced twice, one died andhe beheaded two others! The last outlived him.
- 23. The very first bomb dropped bythe Allies on Berlin during World War II had just one casualty The only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
- 24. Did you know?
- 25. Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
- 26. Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
- 27. It is rumored that Adolph Hitlers grandmother was Jewish.
- 28. In 1992, Pope John Paul II declared that the Church waswrong to condemn Galileo for his theory regarding the sun being the center of the universe, 350 years after Galileos death.
- 29. X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are 3 different versions under the present one.
- 30. Did you know?
- 31. During the Hundred Years War,the larger French army threatenedto cut off the middle fingers of the outnumbered English archers. When the English won the battle,they taunted their French captives with a certain one fingered gesture.
- 32. At the height of its power, in 400BC, the Greek city of Sparta had only 25,000 citizens and over 500,000 slaves.
- 33. The tyrant Roman Emperor Caracalla was murdered by his own guards while relievinghimself; hence the phrase, caught with your pants down.
- 34. At Andrew Jacksonsfuneral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing too much.
- 35. The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
- 36. Did you know?
- 37. Alexander the Great hadconquered nearly half the knownworld by the time he was 20 years old.
- 38. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
- 39. In ancient Egypt,people shaved their eyebrows as a mourning symbol when their cats died.
- 40. Members of the Nazi SS hadtheir blood type tattooed on their armpits.
- 41. In a strange twist of irony, KingLouis XVI of France thought old ways of execution were tooinhumane. So he had a doctor invent a new device, the guillotine.He would later be beheaded by that very device.
- 42. History is filled with a ton of interesting facts!
- 43. Are you ready to learn more?
- 44. WORLD HISTORY