What historical fact blows your mind?

1. Roman Emperor Gaius, also known as Caligula, made one of his favorite horses a senator.
2. Turkeys were once worshipped as gods
3. Chinese women used to painfully bind their feet to make them smaller and appear more feminine.
4. The shortest war in history was the Anglo-Zanzibar War. It lasted just 38 minutes.
5. One time, 100 imposters claimed to be Marie Antoinette's dead son.
6. Women were once banned from smoking in public.
7. There were more than 600 plots to kill Fidel Castro.
8. Before dentures were invented, teeth were pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers for use as prosthetics.
9. Ronald Reagan is best known for being president and acting in numerous films, but he was also a prolific lifeguard, who saved 77 people from drowning.
10. There’s a giant mushroom in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest with a root system that covers over 2,200 acres, making it the largest living organism in the world.
11. In 1929, researchers at Princeton University claimed that they had turned a living cat into a telephone.
12. Heroin was once a perfectly acceptable medicine prescribed by doctors for everything from coughs to headaches.
13. While Pope Gregory IX was in power, he declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated in droves.
14. Russian dictator Joseph Stalin often had photos retouched to remove people who had died or been removed from office.
15. The largest bird ever to exist had a wingspan of almost 20 feet. It lived 60 million years ago.
16. The Mayans used to sacrifice people by pulling their still-beating hearts out of their chests.