30 strange historical facts

1. The youngest parents in the world are between 8 and 9 years old. They lived in China and had their own children in 1910.

2. During World War I, Kotex was first manufactured as a bandage.

3. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of Turkey, anyone was killed by drinking coffee.

4. Abraham Lincoln's dog Fido was also assassinated.

5. In England, the Speaker of the House of Representatives may not speak.

6. About three thousand years ago, most Egyptians died at the age of thirty.

7. The first known contraceptive is crocodile feces, which the Egyptians used in 2000 BC

8. If the statue of the person in the park has two front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse had a front leg in the air, then the man died as a result of being injured in the battle. If all four legs of the horse are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

9. The youngest pope is 11 years old.

10. Richard Versalle's tenor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York suffered a heart attack and jumped 10 feet off the ladder after singing the song "You Can Only Live So Long".

11. 60.7% of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means that President Bush accounts for less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.

12. David Bowie once thought he was entangled by someone dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie noticed the fan in recent concerts, but when he got on a plane and the rabbit was on the plane, he became very alarmed.

13. Dr. Samuel A. Mard was the doctor who established the Lincoln Assassin's Leg John Wilkes Booth. His shame caused a shameful expression: "His name is Mard."

14. Wayne's world was filmed in two weeks.

15. The first Ford engine was made by Dodge.

16. In ancient Egypt, the priests removed every hair from them, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

17. More than 8,100 US troops from the Korean War are still listed as missing.

18. As of January 1, 2004, the population of the United States has increased by one person every 12 seconds. There is a birth every eight seconds, an immigration every 25 seconds, and a death every 13 seconds.

19. In the fire of 1666, half of London was burned, but only six people were injured.

20. During the filming of "The Wizard of Oz", Toto paid $ 125 per week.

21. The only band member of ZZ Top who has no beard has a surname of beard.

22. The electric chair was invented by the dentist.

23. In Egypt, around 1500 BC, shaved heads were considered the ultimate feminine beauty. Egyptian women used special gold tweezers to remove their hair from the head and polished the scalp with a polishing cloth to a high gloss.

24. George Lumley, 104, married Mary Dunning, 10, in Nortallerton, England on August 25, 1783. She was the woman's great-granddaughter, and destroyed her relationship with Lumley eighty years ago.

25. In the Elizabethan era in England, this spoon was very new and precious, and people used their folding spoons for banquets.

26. The cost of buying a new car in the United States today is higher than the cost of Christopher Columbus ’s equipment and three voyages in the New World.

27. The ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

28. In 1991, Millie at the White House won President Bush ’s prize money more than four times.

29. A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 established strict road rules. Drivers in this country at night need to stop every 150 yards, launch a rocket, then wait 8 minutes, then proceed carefully, blowing their horns and shooting flares.

30. Louis XIV of France is indeed as unpleasant as he is portrayed. In 1674, when he visited a school in Clermont, he heard from school authorities that a child of a nine-year-old Irish boy named Francis Shetton said to the king's baldness. Louis was very angry. He arrested a secret arrest warrant, and the young Shetton was confined to Bastille alone. His parents were members of the wealthiest merchant family in Europe, and they were told that only the child was missing. The days became months, months to years, and Louis himself passed away. But Francis spent sixty-nine years in the "hole" in order to mock the king's baldness.