Fun Facts About History

1.   Annie Cohen Kopchovsky was a Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world.

2.   Mcdonald's once made bubblegum flavored broccoli.

3.   Life expectancy in Ancient Rome was from 20 to 30 years.

4.   The Anglo-Zanzibar war between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar Sultanate on August 27, 1896, was the shortest recorded war in history lasting 45 minutes.

5.   Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

6.   Mexican Free-tailed bat was used as a bat bombs weapon in World War 2 developed by the United States.

7.   Seventy-five percent of all gold in circulation has been extracted since 1910.

8.   Samsung’s first product was dried fish.

9.   The 1967 Outer Space Treaty forbids any nation from trying to own the Moon.

10.   “Horizontal refreshment” was a 19th-century slang term for sex.

11.   The first eight-packs of Crayola in 1903 were sold door-to-door for a nickel.

12.   The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.

13.   In 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.

14.   Canada’s lowest recorded temperature was -81.4 degrees Fahrenheit (-63C) in 1947.

15.   Leonardo Da Vinci is the first person who proposed contact lenses in 1508.