Tag Archives: history
John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son. Irony.
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Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If they were captured, the cards could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
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Altoids date back to King George III of England, in the 1830s.
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Thomas Alva Edison baptised the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, later renamed the LA Dodgers.
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To prove that Nikola Tesla’s technology was dangerous, Thomas Alva Edison publicly electrofried a series of animals, including an elephant.
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Thomas Alva Edison pushed for the AC electric chair to be used in state executions, in an attempt to prove that Nikola Tesla was wrong.
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Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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Only two people signed the US Declaration of Independence on July 4: John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.
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During WW2, Wiston Churchill received cigars as presents from all over the world; to protect him from being poisoned, tobacco tests were mashed up and inyected to rats.
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It was the accepted practice in Babylon, 4,000 years ago, that for a month after the
wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades (King David), Hearts (Charlemagne), Clubs (Alexander the Great), Diamonds (Julius Caesar).
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In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. That’s where the word “testify” comes from.
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The microwave was invented when a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharaoh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.
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Félix Faure (1841-1899), sexto presidente de la III República francesa, murió mientras fornicaba en un prostíbulo de París. La joven sufrió un terrible shock y se dice que los médicos tuvieron que separarlos de una forma radical: seccionaron quirúrgicamente el pene del presidente
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