Funny historical facts of history. Interesting and little-known historical facts. Italy is just a little older than Coca-Cola
Prospects for profit - it was believed that at a speed of 60 km / h, passengers would suffocate.
Incredible facts
History is a rather vast subject, and it is impossible to fully study it, especially in the smallest detail.
Sometimes these seemingly insignificant details can become a very part of it.
Here are some interesting facts from history that will not be covered in the lessons.
1. Albert Einstein could become president... In 1952 he was offered the post of the second president of Israel, but he refused.
2. Kim Jong Il was a good composer and Korean leader throughout his life composed 6 operas.
3. The leaning tower of Pisa has always been tilted... In 1173, the construction team of the Leaning Tower of Pisa noticed that the base was curved. Construction was halted for nearly 100 years, but the structure was never straight.
4. Arabic numerals were not invented by the Arabs, but by Indian mathematicians.
5. Before the invention of alarm clocks, there was a profession of wake up other people in the morning... So, for example, a person had to shoot dried peas at the windows of other people in order to wake them up for work.
6. Grigory Rasputin survived many assassination attempts in one day... They tried to poison, shoot and stab him, but he managed to survive. In the end, Rasputin died in a cold river.
7. The shortest war in history lasted less than an hour. The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted 38 minutes.
8. Longest war in history occurred between the Netherlands and the Scilly archipelago. The war lasted 335 years from 1651 to 1989, with no casualties on either side.
People, stories and facts
9. This amazing view, known as " Majestic argentine bird"With a wingspan of 7 meters, it is the largest flying bird in history. It lived about 6 million years ago in the open plains of Argentina and the Andes. The bird is a relative of modern vultures and storks, and its feathers reached the size of a samurai sword.
10.Using sonar, the researchers found at a depth of 1.8 km two strange pyramids... Scientists have determined that they are made of a kind of thick glass and reach enormous sizes (larger than the pyramids of Cheops in Egypt).
11. These two men with the same name were sentenced to imprisonment in the same prison and look very similar. However, they have never met, are not related, and are the reason why fingerprints began to be used in the judicial system.
12. Bandaging the legs- An ancient Chinese tradition, when girls had their toes tied to their feet. The idea was that the smaller the foot was, the more beautiful and feminine the girl was considered.
13. The strangest and most frightening mummies are considered mummies guanajuato... Their twisted faces make them believe that they were buried alive.
14. Heroin was once used as a substitute for morphine and was used to relieve coughs in children.
15. Joseph Stalin may have been the inventor of Photoshop... After the death or disappearance of some people, photographs with him were edited.
16. Recent DNA tests have confirmed that the parents of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun were brother and sister... This explains many of his illnesses and defects.
17. The Parliament of Iceland is considered the oldest functioning parliament in the world... It was founded in 930.
Unexplained and mysterious facts of history
18. For years, miners in South Africa have been excavating mysterious balls about 2.5 cm in diameter with three parallel grooves. The stone from which they are made belongs to the Precambrian period, that is, their age is about 2.8 billion years.
19. It is believed that Catholic saints do not decompose. The oldest of the "non-degradable" is Cecilia of Rome who was martyred in A.D. 177. Her body remains much the same as when it was discovered 1,700 years ago.
20. Encryption from Chaboro in Great Britain is one of the still unsolved mysteries. If you look closely, you can see an inscription in the form of letters on the monument: DOUOSVAVVM. No one knows who carved this inscription, but many believe that this is the key to finding Holy grail.
In 1992, a group of Australians set themselves the goal of winning the jackpot of the national lottery by all means. They invested $ 5 million in lottery tickets (a dollar per ticket) to cover almost every possible combination and won $ 27 million.
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One nun really needed a ladder, and she had no one to turn to. The devout woman began to pray fervently to the patron saint of carpenters, Saint Joseph. Soon a man appeared on the threshold, who offered his services and in a couple of months made a beautiful, strong spiral staircase. When the work was completed, the man simply disappeared without receiving any payment or gratitude, and all attempts to find him were unsuccessful. It is curious that the staircase is made without any supports, without a single nail, and at the same time makes a 360-degree turn. 
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Elephants rape and kill rhinos. In Pilanesberg National Park alone (South Africa), 63 such cases have been reported. 
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In 1995, the New York-based magazine Newsweek published an article “Why the web can never be Nirvana,” mocking the future of the internet. The author of the article scoffed at the idea that someday people will find out the news, buy flights and study online. This article can still be read on the website of the publication. 
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There is a territory between Egypt and Sudan that no state claims. It is called Bir-Tavil and is a quadrangle with an area of about 2000 kilometers. In theory, this territory should now belong to Egypt. However, in 1958, Egypt demanded that Sudan return to the borders of 1899 and the transfer of the Halaib Triangle, abandoning Bir Tawil in return. Sudan refused. So Bir-Tavil turned out to be the only "no-man's" territory outside Antarctica. 
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In 1730, the French pirate Olivier Levasseur was sentenced to the gallows. Before his execution, he unexpectedly threw a note with a cryptogram into the crowd, shouting: "Find my treasures, if you can!" The treasure has not yet been found. 
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During the excavations of an ancient Roman temple in London's Southwark, a jar of ointment was discovered, which is at least 2,000 years old. The substance has retained its structure, even quite clear fingerprints remained on it. 
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The largest robbery in Japan took place in 1968. One day, a bank car carrying a large sum of money was stopped by a police officer on a motorcycle. He said that according to his information, a bomb was planted in the car and ordered everyone to get out. Then he climbed inside "to defuse the explosive device." Suddenly the car was filled with smoke and the bank employees accompanying the valuable cargo fled in panic. And the “policeman” calmly left. During this robbery (the crime scene in the photo below), 300 million yen was stolen, and it still remains unsolved. 
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Most of the borders of the Middle East were established by a pair of European aristocrats in 1916. Frenchman François Georges-Picot and Englishman Mark Sykes developed the so-called Sykes-Picot Agreement, which delimited the spheres of interests of Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy in the Middle East after the First World War. 
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In 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace. Went for a swim with friends in the bay and disappeared. He could not drown, as he was an excellent swimmer, there were no sharks in those places, the cheerful prime minister had no reason to commit suicide. Holt's body was never found. This disappearance has entered Australian folklore. The expression “to make Harold Holt” means to disappear suddenly and mysteriously among the locals. 
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In May 2013, an American Airlines plane flying from Los Angeles to New York was forced to make an emergency landing in order to expel fan Whitney Houston, who drove passengers and crew to despair. The woman, not stopping with good obscenities, screamed the famous hit “I Will Always love you” and flatly refused to shut up. She sang even when the police took her out of the car:
The history in our head is sometimes at different levels. We know individual historical facts, but we never try to compare them with each other and represent the course of history as something whole. Teachers have sorted things out, but forgot to combine the facts, and when we think about the events of the past, healthy cognitive dissonance can be experienced. Don't believe me?
The fax was invented before the telephone
It would seem that the fax is a more technological device, because it can transmit not only text, but also still images, which in the 19th century was considered something unimaginable. The early developments of the facsimile device appeared in the early 1800s, but they turned into reality in 1865, when the first electromechanical fax was introduced on the Paris-Lyon line.
The first telephone appeared only 10 years later, when Alexander Bell, together with Thomas Wattson, showed the general public a real membrane telephone.
From the first plane to the flight to the moon - one step
The 20th century is associated with an incredible leap forward in science. Much of what surrounds us was invented just then. Fun fact: The first flight of the Wright brothers on their homemade glider took place in 1903. Just 66 years later, humanity landed on the moon. Unfortunately, now there is a slowdown in the development of science due to imperfect technologies, but in the future we can expect another such leap forward, and who knows where it will lead us.
Harvard University predates the derivation of Newton's laws
In the Middle Ages, scientific research was mainly carried out by the clergy. Then the church did not deny scientific development, if it did not contradict the divine principle. Nevertheless, in 1636 the famous Harvard University was founded, from which the greatest minds of mankind emerged. At the same time, the famous work of Isaac Newton on the laws of universal gravitation and motion of bodies "Principia Mathemitica" appeared only in 1687.
Cleopatra rules closer to flying to the moon than building pyramids
Modern analysis of the age of the pyramids has shown that the same famous pyramid of Cheops in Egypt was built around 2540 BC. The famous queen Cleopatra ruled the state closer to the zero point of reference - 69-30 BC. Man landed on the moon, as we have already mentioned, in 1969.
Enemies in the same city
Fun fact: some of the most important personalities of the 20th century lived in the same city in 1913, namely Vienna. Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky, Freud, Joseph Franz - the apartments and residences of all these people were not far from each other.
For example, Trotsky and Hitler often visited the same cafe in the center of Vienna, it is likely that they crossed paths there more than once, but did not know each other yet. Literally a couple of steps from here there was another cafe, which Freud used to visit. It is also known that there was only an hour of leisurely walking between the apartments of Stalin and Hitler, perhaps they met during evening walks.
Italy is just a little older than Coca-Cola
The Kingdom of Italy appeared in 1861, when several independent states united into a single country. The famous Coca-Cola drink appeared only 31 years later, in 1892.
Steam locomotives were invented before bicycles
It would seem that such a simple invention as a bicycle has existed for a long time, but in reality everything turned out to be more complicated. Huge and complex steam engines appeared after the patent for the steam carriage in 1797. At the same time, the first bicycle was shown only in 1818.
Nintendo came before you think
The renowned manufacturer of video games and consoles on the market today, Nintendo has a rich history. In fact, it appeared at the end of the 19th century, in 1889. Then the world famous brand was engaged in the manufacture of playing cards, as well as accessories for board games. Just at the time of the founding of this company in Paris, they were still finishing the construction of the majestic Eiffel Tower, and in London the noise had not yet subsided due to the high-profile murders of that very Jack the Ripper.
The oldest tree on earth actually witnessed the death of mammoths
Some of the oldest trees on earth are the Bristlecone pines, found in a nature reserve in California. Some of them are already 5 thousand years old, and they have experienced a lot of great historical events on the planet. Including the death of the last mammoth, which scientists date about 4 thousand years ago.
Interesting historical facts beckon with their diversity. Thanks to them, humanity has a unique opportunity to understand what happened in a particular period of development of a nation, society and states. Facts from history are not just what we were told at school. There are many secrets from this area of knowledge.
1. Peter the Great had his own method to fight alcoholism in the country. The drunks were awarded medals, which weighed about 7 kilograms, and they could not be removed from oneself.
2.In the days of Ancient Russia, grasshoppers were called dragonflies.
3. The anthem of Thailand was written by a Russian composer.
5. Those who urinated in the reservoir were executed during the time of Genghis Khan.
7. Braids were a sign of feudalism in China.
8. The virginity of English women during the Tudor era was symbolized by bracelets on the arms and a tight corset.
9. Nero, who was the emperor in ancient Rome, married his male slave.
10. In ancient times, mutilation of the ears was used as a punishment in India.
11.Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but by mathematicians from India.
13 Foot bandaging was considered an ancient tradition of Chinese people. The essence of this was to make the foot smaller, and therefore more feminine and beautiful.
14. Morphine was once used to relieve coughs.
15. The ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun had parents as a sister and a brother.
16. Guy Julius Caesar had the nickname "boots."
17. Elizabeth the First covered her own face with white lead and vinegar. So she hid the traces of smallpox.
18. Monomakh's hat was the symbol of the Russian tsars.
19.Pre-revolutionary Russia was considered the most teetotal country.
20. Until the 18th century, Russia did not have a flag.
21.Since November 1941, there was a childlessness tax in the Soviet Union. It accounted for 6% of the total salary.
22. Trained dogs provided assistance in clearing objects during World War II.
23. Almost not a single earthquake was recorded during the large-scale nuclear tests of 1960-1990.
24. For Hitler, the main enemy was not Stalin, but Yuri Levitan. He even announced an award of 250,000 marks for his head.
25 In the Icelandic "Saga of Hakon Hakonarson" it was said about Alexander Nevsky.
26. For a long time in Russia fist fights were famous.
27. Ekaterina Vtoraya canceled spanking for the military for same-sex contacts.
28.The invaders from France managed to expel only Jeanne Dark, who called herself the messenger of God.
29.The length of the Cossack gull, which we remember from the history of the Zaporizhzhya Sich, reached about 18 meters.
30. Genghis Khan defeated the Kerait, Merkit and Naiman.
31. By order of the Emperor Augustus in ancient Rome, houses that were higher than 21 meters were not built. This minimized the risk of being buried alive.
32. The Colosseum is considered the bloodiest place in history.
33. Alexander Nevsky had the military rank of "khan".
34. During the times of the Russian Empire, it was allowed to carry edged weapons.
35.The soldiers in the army of Napoleon addressed the generals on "you".
36. During the Roman war, soldiers lived in tents of 10 people.
37. Any touch of the emperor in Japan before World War II was sacrilege.
38 Boris and Gleb are the first Russian saints who were canonized in 1072.
39. In the Great Patriotic War, a Red Army machine gunner named Semyon Konstantinovich Hitler, who was Jewish by nationality, took part.
40. In the old days in Russia, to clean pearls, they were allowed to peck at a chicken. After that, the chicken was slaughtered, and the pearls were pulled out of its stomach.
41. From the very beginning, people who cannot speak Greek were called barbarians.
42 In pre-revolutionary Russia, the name day for Orthodox people was a more important holiday than a birthday.
43. When England and Scotland came to an alliance, Great Britain was created.
44. After Alexander the Great brought cane sugar from one of his Indian campaigns to Greece, they immediately began to call it “Indian salt”.
45 In the 17th century, thermometers were filled not with mercury, but with cognac.
46 The first condom in the world was invented by the Aztecs. It was made from a fish bubble.
47. In 1983, no births were recorded at the Vatican.
48. From the 9th to the 16th century, there was a law in England that every man should practice archery on a daily basis.
49. When the Winter Palace was stormed, only 6 people died.
50. About 13,500 homes were destroyed in the great and famous fire in London in 1666.
