Random Facts About History

yzyzyz

So in this topic, you can post random facts about history.
The rules:
1. You can only post facts about events that happened before 1995.
2. No inappropriate facts!
3. Keep the discussion on-topic.
4. have fun!

aking_

1. The longest war that ever happened was between the Netherlands and the Isle of Scilly from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties.

2. The shortest war ever fought was the Anglo-Zanzibar war that lasted only 38 minutes in 1896.

3. Albert Einstein was offered to be Israel's second president in 1952 but he declined the offer.

4. Napoleon was once attacked by rabbits.

5. A live cat was transformed into a functioning telephone back in 1929.

6. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (a president of Mexico) had his leg amputated and ordered a full military burial of it back in 1838.

7. Ancient Egyptians used slabs of stones as pillows.

Dabzers

John Lennon, Vladimir Lenin, and John Legend are all different people

I love history so expect me to post a lot of crazy trivia

yzyzyz

The word “Dord” was accidentally added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary (instead of “D or d”, meaning density) in 1934, and stayed there for 13 years.

SonicMasterSystem

People though mercury was good for having eternal life.

spoiler alert it didn't

MeIoetta

aking_ wrote:
1. The longest war that ever happened was between the Netherlands and the Isle of Scilly from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties.

Pretty sure the longest war was reconquista

Last edited by MeIoetta (Oct. 21, 2017 13:24:19)

MeIoetta

5 world superpowers (Germany, Austria, Russia, Soviet Union, III Reich) wanted to brutally remove Polish ethnicity forever but they all failed.

aking_

MeIoetta wrote:
Pretty sure the longest war was reconquista

I think you're right

Coder_Annika

I love history!

yzyzyz

Coder_Annika wrote:
I love history!

Me too!

Dabzers

yzyzyz wrote:
Coder_Annika wrote:
I love history!
Me too!

Me three

Dabzers

SonicMasterSystem wrote:
People though mercury was good for having eternal life.

spoiler alert it didn't

Dabzers

MeIoetta wrote:
aking_ wrote:
1. The longest war that ever happened was between the Netherlands and the Isle of Scilly from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties.
Pretty sure the longest war was reconquista

Yeah Netherlands vs Scilly was 335 years (this conflict was creativley named Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years War) and Reconquista was 780 years so yeah

MeIoetta

People in America though that Rad was a medicine, so there was something called Radithor.
“It consisted of triple distilled water containing at a minimum 1 microcurie (37 kBq) each of the radium 226 and 228 isotopes.” - Wikipedia

Eben Byers, a rich person was ill and in 1927 a fake doctor suggested him to take Radithor, soon he drank about 1400 bottles of it by 1930 when he stopped. He died of radium poisoning in 1932 and a lot of cancers, when he was buried he had no jaw, holes in his bones and had to be placed in a lead-lined coffin. After that, radioactive materials were banned around the world.
Also, his skeleton will be deadly radioactive for about 1500 years.

yzyzyz

scotland joined the uk because they used a lot of their budget in a failed colonization attempt.

SonicMasterSystem

yzyzyz wrote:
scotland joined the uk because they used a lot of their budget in a failed colonization attempt.

lol

-ShadowOfTheFuture-

The Zhou Dynasty was the longest dynasty in China's history, ruling for around 800 years. (It wasn't really an empire, though.)

Correct me if I'm wrong

Dabzers

-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:
The Zhou Dynasty was the longest dynasty in China's history, ruling for around 800 years. (It wasn't really an empire, though.)

Correct me if I'm wrong

The Qin is the shortest of 15 years

yzyzyz

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