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.

What historical fact blows your mind?

 Officially, the longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, which lasted from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties.

Roman Emperor Gaius, also known as Caligula, made one of his favourite horse senator.

Albert Einstein was offered the role of Israel’s second President in 1952, but declined.

Napoleon was once attacked by rabbits.

Russian dictator Joseph Stalin often had photos retouched to remove people who had died or been removed from office.

According to Greek philosophers slavery did not exist in ancient India.

Aryabhatta, the great astronomer and scientist, discovered zero. The number system was also invented in ancient India.

Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

The largest nuclear bomb built, the Tsar bomb, caused destruction 1000 km away.

The shortest war in history is the war between Zanzibar and England in 1896 . Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Which rare historical photos exist that seem almost unbelievable?

 

1. Havana, Cuba in 1900.

2. These are listening booths in a music store in the 1950s. Customers could come in and sample music before purchasing it.

3. Annie Edson Taylor posing with the barrel in which she rode over Niagara Falls in 1901

4. Samurai 1860-1880

5. A priest praying over Titanic victims in 1912

6. Filming of the MGM opening credits in 1928

7. A 5 MB hard drive being loaded into a plane in 1956

8. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing in 1960

9. The first Wimbledon match in 1883

10. Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd inaugural address

What are some remarkable photographs from history?

1- Tennessee from the 1890s until the 1930s. There seems to be a whole lot of people who have these shots in their family albums. They were all taken from the same angle.

2-Nuremberg Nazi rally, 1937.

Miss New Zealand passes out from heat exhaustion. Long Beach, California (7-19-54).

4-Amazing historical photography from construction of the Titanic.

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6- Amazing history photos found from Vietnam War.

7- Hillary Clinton enjoying sea breeze. Her past memories.

8- Hillary and Bill’s wedding photo

9- Donald Trump and the list of his achievements at Military high school.

10- M.A Jinnah and Mohandas Gandhi in pleasant mood (Bombay, 1944)

11- Female IRA fighter with her assault rifle in the 70's.

12 . Last public execution in the United States (Kentucky, 1936)

What are some rare historical photographs from world history?

 1. Al Capone's free soup kitchen, chicago, 1931

2. ‎Times square, 1909

3. ‎Elvis Presley age 6

4. ‎Discovering the Mona Lisa after WW2

5. ‎Nasa before power point, 1960's

6. ‎A meeting of the Mickey mouse club, 1930.

7. ‎Golden Gate bridge construction, 1937

8. ‎Acrobats at the top of Empire state building to celebrate it's opening, May 1, 1931

9. ‎Salvador Dali walking his anteater in Paris, 1969

10. ‎Tattoo parlour in 1920's

11. ‎John Lennon sniffing coke.

12. ‎Eiffel tower under construction in july 1888.

13. A prankster altered the famous Hollywood sign in 1971.

What are some little known facts about famous historical figures?

 One underappreciated figured was Lt General Matthew Ridgway. He was a general during the Korean War in the 1950s.

He saw tons of problems at front lines and in combat related to racial segregation.

He finally declared that segregation of units was “wholly inefficient to military readiness and effectiveness and also said it was un-American and un-Christian.

Then, he ordered the all-black units dissolved and the men reassigned to other units.

Within a few months, the entire 8th Army was integrated, and this set the stage for other military units doing the same.

This was a bold move that wasn’t without controversy, and General Ridgway never got enough credit for the precedent he set.

What are some unbelievably rare historical photos that actually exist?

 Jerusalem, everyday life in a Christian quarter, 1870. Félix Bonfils:

3 year-old Albert Einstein in 1882, Munich, Germany. Wikipedia:

The Acropolis of Athens, 1907. Underwood and Underwood:

“Mad monk” (actually, he was neither) Grigori Rasputin and groupies in an apartment in St Petersburg, 1914. Hitek:

German dispatch dog delivering messages on the front during a German offensive, 1918. Hitek:

Chinese doctor, an aristocrat with long fingernails. “A Chinese Hand Much Admired.” c. 1920. C. C. Pierce:

Execution of right-wing prisoner by the Republican Army during the Paracuellos Massacres (Matanzas de Paracuellos), in Paracuellos del Jarama, the small town and municipality of Madrid,1936. Wikipedia:

Body of Heinrich Himmler after he committed suicide by poison, 1945. Wikipedia:

When Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, this D.C. restaurant celebrated by offering free borshch. Eileen Keenan, a waitress at the 1203 Restaurant, puts up a sign outside the restaurant, March 6. Bettmann: