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My sister was watching TV the other day and the programme was called Horrible Histories. It was quite funny for a kids' programme and it made me realise how strange and weird history can be. Here's a sketch from the show!
For this competition, you have to post the weirdest historical fact you can find. The weirdest will win! Good luck!
Prize: 5 credits + 10 rep
During the First World War, the punishment for homosexuality in the French army was execution.
In Ancient Egypt, the heart was considered to be the seat of intelligence – not the brain.
In the 1800s, if you attempted suicide and failed, you would have to face the death penalty.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats
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A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.Quote:
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Adolf Hitler won two Iron Cross' during the First World War, he only wore one as the other was awarded for saving a Jew.
Members of the SS had their blood types tattooed on their armpits.
Hitler only had one testicle.
In the stuart times, people used to eat regurgitated whale phlegm +o(
When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
When Coca-Cola was first introduced to the thirsty masses in 1886, it was pitched as an "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage."
The Incans used to wash their hair and shave their legs using human urine.
In ancient Rome, a runaway slave was considered a criminal because he had stolen himself!
In the 18th century, the punishment for suicide was death.
Many men who acted as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages spent their whole lives there. They were born there, raised there, they married there, died there, and were even buried within the wall.
As sad as it seems... I watch Horrible Histories :P
Aztec Priests use to kill & use bodies for things such as medicine and furterliser.
453 AD --- Attila the Hun bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night.
I think this is funny and random lol..
The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes
Why bother? lol
97 per cent of all paper money in the United States contains traces of cocaine.
Good thing I'm Canadian! lolol.