Historical Facts
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.
In 1819, the USA purchased florida from spain for the cancellation of a $5 million debt.
Leonardo da Vinci worked on the Mona Lisa for 15 years. By the time he died in 1519, he still didn’t consider it finished.
In 1685, New France used playing cards as currency because of the shortage of coins.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Roman emperor Elagabalus (3rd Century) was served 600 ostrich brains at a single meal.
John Styth Pemberton, the man who invented Coca-Cola, was addicted to morphine.
Sailors once believed that smelling the bad breath of whales could cause brain disorders.
The first people to use a toothbrush were the Hindus of India who used the end of a fresh twig, which was frayed into fibers, in 4000 B.C.
Between 1838 and 1960, more than half the photos taken were of babies.
At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour.
Niagara falls actually stopped flowing in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the niagara river.
The coliseum in Rome was used regularly for about 400 years.
A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.
The first Ph.D. with "Psychology" in its title was given to Granville Stanley Hall at Harvard University in 1878.
Odin, a central character in Norse mythology, used two ravens named "Thought" and "Memory" to bring him news from around the world.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the heart, not the brain, was the seat of mental processes.
In 1504, Leonardo da Vinci produced wax casts of the ventricles of the human brain.
The expression "memorize by heart" is derived from the old belief that the heart, not the brain, was important for memory. Also, the word "record" comes from the Latin word for "heart."
Leonardo da Vinci designed contact lenses made of glass filled with water.
It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the pyramid of giza, which is one of the great pyramids.
Roman emperors believed that eating lettuce would help a person sleep.
It has been suggested that shepherds are responsible for inventing the game golf. It is said that they used to use their staffs to hit the stones.
Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) had cataracts and was almost blind by 1922. He had cataract surgery on his right eye in 1922.
A russian man who wore a beard during the time of peter the great had to pay a special tax.
Three of Fidel Castro’s sons, Alexis, Alexander and Alejandro, are named after Alexander the Great.
The name of the first human being in norse mythology is Ask.
During the 60's, the women's liberation movement denounced bras as a symbol of servitude and encouraged bra burning rallies.