25 Odd and Interesting Historical Facts That Will Pique Your Interest
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Bits and pieces of history you may never have known.
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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. -
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Albert Einstein was offered the role of Israel’s second President in 1952, but declined. -
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Soon after building started in 1173, the foundation of the Pisa tower settled unevenly. Construction was stopped, and was continued only a 100 years later. Therefore, the leaning tower was never straight. -
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John F. Kennedy, Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis all died on the same day. -
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Napoleon was once attacked by rabbits. -
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The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record lasting an exhausting 38 minutes. -
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Karl Marx was once a correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune. -
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Kim Jong Il wrote six operas. -
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Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in 1929. -
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Ronald Reagan was a lifeguard during high school and saved 77 people’s lives. -
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Lord Byron kept a pet bear in his college dorm room. -
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In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money—the prizes were live babies. -
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A New Orleans man hired a pirate to rescue Napoleon from his prison on St. Helena. -
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The "D" in D-Day in fact, it does not stand for anything. The 'D' is derived from the word 'day'. 'D-Day' means the day on which a military operation begins. The term 'D-Day' has been used for many different operations, but it is now generally only used to refer to the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944. -
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The Constitution of the Confederate States of America banned the slave trade. -
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When the American Civil War started, Confederate Robert E. Lee owned no slaves. Union general U.S. Grant did. -
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England’s King George I was actually German. -
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In 1838, General Antonio López de Santa Anna (President of Mexico) had his leg amputated after his ankle was destroyed by canon-fire. He ordered a full military burial for it. -
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Contrary to popular belief and legend, Daniel Boone not only did not wear a coonskin cap, he detested them. Instead, Boone wore a felt cap. -
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At the start of World War I, the US Airforce (then a component of the US army) had only 18 pilots and 5 – 12 airplanes. -
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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. -
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Arabic numerals (the ones used in English) were not invented by the Arabs at all – they were actually invented by Indian mathematicians. -
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The Parliament of Iceland is the oldest still acting parliament in the world. It was established in 930. -
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Despite the terrible nature of and damage caused by the 1666 Great Fire of London, only 8 people were killed. This is despite the fire destroying at least 13,500 houses. -
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Ancient Egyptians used slabs of stones as pillows.
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