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125 Fun History Facts. 1. During World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded the Blue Cross Medal. She extinguished an incendiary bomb by peeing on it! 2. Alexander the Great was...
1. Dictators together. In 1913 Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky, Tito all lived in Vienna for a couple of months. 2. Colonial background. The first British officer killed in World War One was an Englishman, born in India, in a Scottish regiment, commanding Senegalese troops in Togoland. 3. Record breaking vaccine.
From Rome's horse senator to the gruesome Buddhist practice of self-mummification, these interesting history facts are too bizarre to be anything but true.
Yes, it's important to know your history—not just the big names and key dates, but the little details that help us better understand a historic figure or era in which they lived. Maybe it's a surprising fact that makes you rethink conventional wisdom.
From the American Revolution to World War II, these fun historical facts explore the most interesting corners of humanity's past.
Well, here we’d like to educate you on some of the lesser-known history facts that they don’t teach you at school! Prepare to be amused & amazed with this huge round-up of the top 100 craziest history facts you could ever know! Augustus Caesar was the wealthiest man to ever live in history.
From a forgotten work by Pablo Picasso to the site of Harriet Tubman’s Maryland home to an Aztec altar, these were the most fascinating finds of 2021, as covered by Smithsonian magazine ...