This year was the tenth year of me writing this blog. As 2022 draws to an end, I thought some probably true historical facts could be amusing as the next entry will be on January 2nd 2023. So thanks for reading, have a great new years eve, as well as a safe and great week, and I'll see you all next year!
-From 1912 to 1948, the Olympic Games held competitions in the fine arts and awarded medals.
-Napoleon Bonaparte was attacked by a horde of angry bunnies during a rabbit hunt.
-The owners of the Titanic never claimed the ship was unsinkable, despite what the press said.
-Mary actually existed and she owned a little lamb.
-Nixon was a skilled musician and could play the piano, saxophone, clarinet, accordion, and violin.
-In 1830 ketchup was sold as indigestion medicine.
-Abraham Lincoln is in the wrestling hall of fame and was a licensed bartender.
-No one was burned in Salem for being a witch. Most were jailed and a few were hanged, but no one burned.
-Walt Disney was cremated, not frozen.
-Before the drink Bloody Mary was called such, it was called Red Snapper and before that, A Bucket of Blood.
-In 1917, four years before women in the U.S. could vote, one woman was elected to Congress.
-Machu Picchu was built in 1450. The Tower of London was built in 1078.
-The shortest war in history is the Anglo-Zanzibar War which happened on August 27, 1896 and lasted 38 minutes.
-Tablecloths were originally designed to function as communal napkins to be used by all the dinner guests at once.
-100 million years ago, there were galloping crocodiles in what is now the Sahara Desert.
-Oliver Cromwell banned eating pie, claiming that is was too pagan.
-It is estimated that about 97% of history is lost in time.
-Even mentioning Genghis Khan in the Soviet union was illegal.
-The year 46 BC was 445 days long and included two leap months. Julius Caesar arranged this to make his new Julian calendar sync up.
-The worlds oldest still functioning parliament in the Islandic Althing which was started in 930.
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