23 Unbelievable Facts You Didn’t Know About Humanity

Humans have done quite a few strange things over the years, but many not quite as unexpected as these.

1. Charles Sherwood Stratton was born 4 January 1838, and his growth virtually stopped at six months, reaching only one meter at adulthood. He was picked up by P.T. Barnum and became a huge circus success as “General Tom Thumb.”

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2. No-one knows Albert Einstein’s last words, because his attendant nurse did not speak German.

Via: guardian.co.uk

3. Women in the Tiwi tribe of Northern Australia are married at birth.

Via: people.stthomasu.ca

4. Jeweler Otto Rohwedder patented the bread slicer in 1928. It had taken him sixteen years to perfect sliced bread.

Via: cookingdownunder.com

5. Ivan the Terrible claimed that he had “deflowered thousands of virgins and butchered a similar number of resulting offspring.”

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6. The active ingredient in Chinese delicacy, bird’s nest soup, is saliva.

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7. English Parliament abolished Christmas in 1647.

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8. During World War I, a South African monkey was promoted to corporal.

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9. “Abracadabra” was originally used to cure those afflicted with hay fever.

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10. In the 1970s, the Rhode Island Legislature debated enacting a $2 tax on every “act of sexual intercourse” in the state.

Via: revelandriot.com

11. One of Queen Victoria’s wedding gifts was a half-ton, three-meter in diameter block of cheese.

Via: gourmetcheesedetective.com

12. If your name is Mary, you can’t be a prostitute in Siena, Italy.

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13. Julius Caesar wore his signature laurel wreath in order to cover up his oncoming baldness.

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14. Peter the Great had his wife’s lover’s head cut off, then had it preserved in alcohol and placed next to her bed.

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15. Sir Winston Churchill “rationed” himself fifteen cigars a day.

Via: nydailynews.com

16. In some parts of Malaya, women keep harems of men.

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17. During and between the two World Wars, France was controlled by forty different governments.

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18. David Atchison was President of the United States for one day in 1849. He spent most of it sleeping.

Via: en.wikipedia.org

19. Paul Revere was a dentist.

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20. There are 240 dots in Pac-Man.

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21. Urination was once used as a way of washing clothes.

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22. George Washington grew marijuana in his Mount Vernon garden.

Via: californiapotblog.com

23. In Russia, it’s a criminal offense to drive around in a dirty car.

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