History world and US Bizzare Facts - Page 2

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The first African-American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph J. Bunche in 1950.

Bizarre Fact #52:
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The first American celebration of St. Patricks Day was at Boston in 1737.

Bizarre Fact #53:
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The first hot air balloon flight traveled for 5.5 miles over Paris and lasted for 23 minutes.

Bizarre Fact #54:
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The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City.

Bizarre Fact #55:
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The first lighthouse built in the USA was in Boston, MA in 1716.

Bizarre Fact #56:
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The first museum in Moscow that was set up in 1791 was the Natural History Laboratory at Moscow University. This later was changed to the Zoological Museum.

Bizarre Fact #57:
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The first state to give the right to women to vote was Wyoming.

Bizarre Fact #58:
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The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897.

Bizarre Fact #59:
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The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years.

Bizarre Fact #60:
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The Ice Man, found in the Italian Alps, is now thought to have been murdered. Scientists have just found an arrowhead stuck in the man's back. He is now known as the oldest murder victim on record.

Bizarre Fact #61:
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The last land battle of the U.S. Civil War was fought in Texas.

Bizarre Fact #62:
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The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

Bizarre Fact #63:
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The mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler was accused of being a witch.

Bizarre Fact #64:
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The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross.

Bizarre Fact #65:
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The Nobel prize was first awarded in 1901.

Bizarre Fact #66:
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The oldest working Post Office in the world is located in the village of Sanquer, located in the Scottish Lowlands. It has been operating since 1712.

Bizarre Fact #67:
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The only South East Asian country that has never been colonized by a Western Power is Thailand.

Bizarre Fact #68:
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The postage rate for a letter in 1693 was determined through how much light could pass through the letter. The postage rate would be more expensive if less light went through, and this process was called candling.

Bizarre Fact #69:
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The Roman emperor Commodus was at one time going to change the name of Rome to Colonia Commodiana.

Bizarre Fact #70:
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The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens.

Bizarre Fact #71:
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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Bizarre Fact #72:
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There have been close to 200 coups and counter-coups in the country of Bolivia.

Bizarre Fact #73:
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There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce.

Bizarre Fact #74:
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There was an army general during the Liberia Civil War who used to lead his army into battle naked. His nickname was "General Butt Naked." Joshua Milton Blahyi (his real name) is now an evangelical preacher in Monrovia.

Bizarre Fact #75:
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To be born on Sunday was considered a sign of great sin during the Puritan times.

Bizarre Fact #76:
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Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.

Bizarre Fact #77:
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Ukrainian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, created the modern day Christian calendar.

Bizarre Fact #78:
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Vikings, after killing their enemies, used their skulls as drinking vessels.

Bizarre Fact #79:
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When Black Jack Ketchum was hung back in 1901 in Clayton New Mexico, the noose actually ended up taking his head off. The head had to be sewn back on so Black Jack could be buried properly.

Bizarre Fact #80:
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When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

Bizarre Fact #81:
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1892 By Presidential Proclamation 1.8 million acres of Crow Indian reservation in Montana were opened to White settlers. The U.S. government had induced the Crow to give up a sizable portion of their land in the mountainous western area of Montana. The Crow received 50 cents per acre for their land.

Bizarre Fact #82:
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

Bizarre Fact #83:
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A female pharaoh was unknown in Egypt before Hatshepsut, who had herself portrayed in male costume, with a beard and without breasts.

Bizarre Fact #84:
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A painting of the Madonna in Fiorano Castle, Italy, escaped without even being scorched when invading soldiers set the castle afire, yet all the rest of the building was destroyed.

Bizarre Fact #85:
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According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Egyptian men never became bald. The reason for this, Herodotus claimed, was that as children Egyptian males had their heads shaved, and their scalps were continually exposed to the health-giving rays of the sun.

Bizarre Fact #86:
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After being forced to state in public that the earth does not rotate, Galileo is said to have muttered under his breath, "But it does move."

Bizarre Fact #87:
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After the great fire of Rome in A.D. 64, the emperor Nero ostensibly decided to lay the blame on Christians residing in the city of Rome. These he gathered together, crucified, covered in pitch (tar), and burnt alive. He walked around his gardens admiring the view.

Bizarre Fact #88:
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Akhbar the Great Mughal routed the Hindus under Hemu by turning their elephants against them at the battle of Panipat in the Hindu revolt.

Bizarre Fact #89:
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Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, both died on the same spot, and both during duels. Philip went first, 3 years before his father would be killed in that same field by Aaron Burr.

Bizarre Fact #90:
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Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

Bizarre Fact #91:
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All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.

Bizarre Fact #92:
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All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.

Bizarre Fact #93:
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Although most people think that Napoleon was short, he was actually five feet six inches tall (1.676 meters), an average height for a Frenchman in those days.

Bizarre Fact #94:
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American astronomer, mathematician, clock-maker, surveyor and almanac editor Benjamin Banneker has been called the "first black man of science." Banneker took part in the original survey of Washington, DC. His almanac was published 1792 to 1797.

Bizarre Fact #95:
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At the outbreak of World War I, the American air force consisted of only fifty men.

Bizarre Fact #96:
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Before 1863, postal service in the United States was free.

Bizarre Fact #97:
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Before all-porcelain false teeth were perfected in the mid-19th century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers following a battle. Teeth extracted from U.S. Civil War soldier cadavers were shipped to England by the barrel to dentists.

Bizarre Fact #98:
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Before winning the election in 1860, Abraham Lincoln lost eight elections for various offices.

Bizarre Fact #99:
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Catherine the Great relaxed by being tickled.

Bizarre Fact #100:
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Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."