70 Things You Probably Never Knew

There's more but some of them were kinda boring so I got 70......my favorite is number 1....for obvious reasons lolz

1.The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.......^0^

2.When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German. (ironic....)

3.Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.

4.A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.

5.An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.

6.The Anglo-Saxons believed Friday to be such an unlucky day that they ritually slaughtered any child unfortunate enough to be born on that day. (I'd be slaughtered TT^TT)

7.In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.

8.For Roman Catholics, 5 January is St Simeon Stylites' Day. He was a fifth-century hermit who showed his devotion to God by spending literally years sitting on top of a huge flagpole.

9.When George I became King of England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for 32 years.

10.The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

11.Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.

12.Ralph and Carolyn Cummins had 5 children between 1952 and 1966, all were born on the 20 February.

13.John D. Rockefeller gave away over US$ 500,000,000 during his lifetime.

14.only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.

15.In the 1970's, the Rhode Island Legislature in the US entertained a proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse in the State.

16.John Glenn, the American who first orbited the Earth, was showered with 3,529 tonnes of ticker tape when he got back.

17.Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to cover the onset of baldness.....lolz

18.It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary. (I'm guessing the guy who thought of the law has a daughter named Mary?)

19.The authorities do not allow tourists to take pictures of Pygmies in Zambia.

20.Upon the death of F.D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman became the President of America on 12 April 1945. The initial S in the middle of his name doesn't in fact mean anything. Both his grandfathers had names beginning with 'S', and so Truman's mother didn't want to disappoint either of them.

21.Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult and the supernatural. (I actually knew that one ^0^)

22.Peter the Great had the head of his wife's lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed. 0.0

23.On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan. (creepy stuff....)

24.Charles the Simple was the grandson of Charles the Bald, both were rulers of France.

25.It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.

26.The Ecuadorian poet, Jos� Olmedo, has a statue in his honour in his home country. But, unable to commission a sculptor, due to limited funds, the government brought a second-hand statue .. Of the English poet Lord Byron.

27.The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random. (ROFL!!!)

28.Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.

29.It is illegal to play tennis in the streets of Cambridge.

30.The American pilot Charles Lindbergh received the Service Cross of the German Eagle form Hermann Goering in 1938.

31.The active ingredient in Chinese Bird's nest soup is saliva. (I knew that....which is why I don't eat it!!)

32.Marie Currie, who twice won the Nobel Prize, and discovered radium, was not allowed to become a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman. (So sexist....-*-)

33.It was quite common for the men of Ancient Greece to exercise in public .. naked.

34.John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.

35.Adolf Eichmann (responsible for countless Jewish deaths during World war II), was originally a travelling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Co. of Austria.

36.The Matami Tribe of West Africa play a version of football, the only difference being that they use a human skull instead of a more normal ball......0.0

37.Elizabeth Blackwell, born in Bristol, England on 3 February 1821, was the first woman in America to gain an M.D. degree.

38.Abraham Lincoln was shot with a Derringer.

39.Sir Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' cloakroom after his mother went into labour during a dance at Blenheim Palace.

40.In 1849, David Atchison became President of the United States for just one day, and he spent most of the day sleeping.

41.Between the two World War's, France was controlled by forty different governments.

42.It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition. (kinda disturbing...)

43.The study of stupidity is called 'monology'.

44.Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marring a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.

45.In 1911 3 men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill, their last names were Green, Berry , and Hill.

46.Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply �' if you were my wife, I would drink it ! '.

47.There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

48.The Russian mystic, Rasputin, was the victim of a series of murder attempts on this day in 1916. The assassins poisoned, shot and stabbed him in quick succession, but they found they were unable to finish him off. Rasputin finally succumbed to the ice-cold waters of a river.

49.A parthenophobic has a fear of virgins.

50.South American gauchos were known to put raw steak under their saddles before starting a day's riding, in order to tenderise the meat.

51.Urine was once used to wash clothe. (there's no other word for it....Eww!!)

52.North American Indian, Sitting Bull, died on 15 December 1890. His bones were laid to rest in North Dakota, but a business group wanted him moved to a 'more natural' site in South Dakota. Their campaign was rejected so they stole the bones, and they now reside in Sitting Bull Park, South Dakota.

53.St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins and communist Russia.

54.Fourteen million people were killed in World War I, twenty million died in a flu epidemic in the years that followed.

55.People in Siberia often buy milk frozen on a stick.

56.Princess Ann was the only competitor at the 1976 Montreal Olympics that did not have to undergo a sex test.

57.Ethelred the Unready, King of England in the Tenth-century, spent his wedding night in bed with his wife and his mother-in-law.

58.Coffins which are due for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.

59.Blackbird, who was the chief of Omaha Indians, was buried sitting on his favourite horse.

60.The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last thirteen hundred years.

61.In the seventeenth-century a Boston man was sentenced to two hours in the stocks for obscene behaviour, his crime, kissing his wife in a public place on a Sunday.

62.President Kaunda of Zambia once threatened to resign if his fellow countrymen didn't stop drinking so much alcohol.

63.Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.

64.Gorgias of Epirus was born during preparation of his mothers funeral.

65.During the Medieval Crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the bones with them.

67.George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

68.Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society.

69.King Solomon of Israel had about 700 wives as well as hundreds of mistresses.

70.Bonnie Prince Charlie, the leader of the Jacobite rebellion to depose of George II of England, was born 31 December 1720. Considered a great Scottish hero, he spent his final years as a drunkard in Rome.

QUOTE

7. In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.

15.In the 1970's, the Rhode Island Legislature in the US entertained a proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse in the State.

27.The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random. (ROFL!!!)

46.Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply �' if you were my wife, I would drink it ! '.

ROFL! Those were my favorites.
Thanks for sharing. Haha.
I can't believe some of these were actually true.
Like. 27! rofl! ♥
I swear, that sounds so ridiculous, but it's so funny. -^^-

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