Incredible facts
History is a rather vast subject, and it is impossible to fully study it, especially in the smallest detail.
Sometimes these seemingly insignificant details can become a very part of it.
Here are a few interesting facts from history, which will not be told in the lessons.
1. Albert Einstein could become president... In 1952 he was offered the post of the second president of Israel, but he refused.
2. Kim Jong Il was a good composer and Korean leader throughout his life composed 6 operas.
3. The leaning tower of Pisa has always been tilted... In 1173, the construction team of the Leaning Tower of Pisa noticed that the base was curved. Construction was halted for nearly 100 years, but the structure was never straight.
4. Arabic numerals were not invented by the Arabs, but by Indian mathematicians.
5. Before the invention of alarm clocks, there was a profession of wake up other people in the morning... So, for example, a person had to shoot dried peas at the windows of other people in order to wake them up for work.
6. Grigory Rasputin survived many assassination attempts in one day... They tried to poison, shoot and stab him, but he managed to survive. In the end, Rasputin died in a cold river.
7. The most short war in history lasted less than an hour. The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted 38 minutes.
8. Longest war in history occurred between the Netherlands and the Scilly archipelago. The war lasted 335 years from 1651 to 1989, with no casualties on either side.
People, stories and facts
9. This amazing view, known as " Majestic argentine bird"With a wingspan of 7 meters, it is the largest flying bird in history. It lived about 6 million years ago in the open plains of Argentina and the Andes. The bird is a relative of modern vultures and storks, and its feathers reached the size of a samurai sword.
10.Using sonar, the researchers found at a depth of 1.8 km two strange pyramids... Scientists have determined that they are made of a kind of thick glass and reach enormous sizes (larger than the pyramids of Cheops in Egypt).
11. These two men with the same name were sentenced to imprisonment in the same prison and look very similar. However, they have never met, are not related, and are the reason why fingerprints began to be used in the judicial system.
12. Bandaging the legs- An ancient Chinese tradition, when girls had their toes tied to their feet. The idea was that the smaller the foot was, the more beautiful and feminine the girl was considered.
13. The strangest and most frightening mummies are considered mummies guanajuato... Their twisted faces make them believe that they were buried alive.
14. Heroin was once used as a substitute for morphine and was used to relieve coughs in children.
15. Joseph Stalin may have been the inventor of Photoshop... After the death or disappearance of some people, photographs with him were edited.
16. Recent DNA tests have confirmed that parents ancient egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun were brother and sister... This explains many of his illnesses and defects.
17. The Parliament of Iceland is considered the oldest functioning parliament in the world... It was founded in 930.
Unexplained and mysterious facts of history
18. For years, miners in South Africa have been excavating mysterious balls about 2.5 cm in diameter with three parallel grooves. The stone from which they are made belongs to the Precambrian period, that is, their age is about 2.8 billion years.
19. It is believed that Catholic saints do not decompose. The oldest of the "non-degradable" is Cecilia of Rome who was betrayed martyrdom in 177 A.D. Her body remains much the same as when it was discovered 1,700 years ago.
20. Encryption from Chaboro in Great Britain is one of the still unsolved mysteries. If you look closely, you can see an inscription in the form of letters on the monument: DOUOSVAVVM. No one knows who carved this inscription, but many believe that this is the key to finding Holy grail.
Prospects for profit - it was believed that at a speed of 60 km / h, passengers would suffocate.
Kind time of the day Dear friends!
Recently died down recent calls in schools - and the graduates took a breath: they were distracted from the preparation for the unified state exam. And this is great, since periodic rest is a necessary component of any preparation. By the way, I wrote about this in more detail in the post.
Today I also suggest that you take a break from preparation and spend time with intellectual entertainment - acquaintance with funny historical facts. These facts will help you to look at history not as a boring series of facts and events, but as entertaining stories that can motivate you to study more thoroughly this or that period of Russian history before the exam.
If the story has already finished you, then I also highly recommend that you read my post on how to learn history so that this teaching is more interesting and exciting.
Now let's move on to the fun part: fun facts from history... I will focus on a few of these interesting stories and facts, but I will draw parallels with domestic history... By the end of the article, you will understand why I did it :).
Let's move in chronology and start from the XIII century.
FIRST FUN STORY. KAMIKAZE
As you well remember in the 13th century, Russia was not going through its best times, it fought off both the Mongol-Tatars and the crusaders ... At the same time, Japan was also experiencing the aggression of the Mongol-Tatars. Japan, like Russia, was fragmented into different principalities, and therefore it could not withstand the onslaught of the Mongols. Meanwhile, her enslavement did not happen. Why then?
In case of aggression by the Mongol-Tatars, the first would be the western principalities of Japan. The princes of these principalities ordered a service in a Shinto temple (Shinto is Japanese paganism). And when Mongol Khan gathered a huge fleet and sent it to enslave Japan, a storm broke out, which scattered the Khan's fleet! This storm was called kami kadze (kami - deity, kadze - wind). That is why in the Second world war Japanese pilots called themselves that because they, like divine wind(kamikaze), attacked the enemy fleet ...:
SECOND FUN FACT. LIFE AND MORALS OF MEDIEVAL RUSSIA.
There is every reason to believe that domestic violence and alcoholism are almost a tradition in Russia. For example, here is a quote from Sylvester's Domostroi:
“Punish your son in his youth, and he will rest you in your old age, and give beauty to your soul. Loving your son, increase his wounds - and then you will not boast of him. Punish your son from youth and you will rejoice for him in his maturity, and among ill-wishers you will be able to boast of him, and your enemies will envy you. Raise children in prohibitions and you will find peace and blessing in them. "
And here is the testimony of the doctor Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Sammuel Collins:
“At Shrovetide, before Lent, the Russians indulge in all kinds of amusements with unbridled restlessness, and on last week there is so much fasting, as if they were destined to drink in last time forever. Some drink vodka, distilled four times, until the mouth flares up and the flame comes out of the throat, as from the throat of hell (Bocca di inferno); and if they are then not given milk to drink, then they die on the spot. ...
Some, returning home drunk, fall sleepy on the snow, if there is no sober comrade with them, and freeze on this cold bed... If someone of his acquaintances happens to walk by and see a drunk friend on the verge of death, then he will not give him help, fearing that he does not die in his arms and fearing to be harassed by investigations, because the Zemsky Order is able to take tax from everyone dead body coming under his department. It is a pity to see how a person is driven twelve frozen in a sleigh; some had their hands eaten by dogs, some had faces, and some had only bare bones. Two or three hundred people were transported in this way during the fast. From this you can see the disastrous consequences of drunkenness, illness (Epidemick), peculiar not to Russia alone, but also to England. "
“The most surprising thing is that her death was not avenged by anyone, because in Russia there is no criminal law that would prosecute for the murder of a wife or a slave if the murder was committed as punishment for a misdemeanor; but murder is a strange punishment: the aim of punishment was never to end life, but always to correct. Some husbands tie their wives by the hair and flog completely naked. Such atrocities, however, are rare, and the reasons are only infidelity or drunkenness. Now, it seems, husbands do not treat their wives so cruelly, because at least parents try to warn them and, giving their daughters in marriage, conclude a condition. They demand from the son-in-law that he supply his wife with decent dresses, feed her good and healthy food, did not beat, treated kindly and offer many other conditions, somewhat similar to those rules prescribed in England by the customs that have received the force of law "
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THE THIRD HISTORICAL FACT: the impetor Peter the Third had two great people in his genealogy: Peter the Great and Charles 12. Irony of fate?
FOUR FUN FACT: Hitler and Lenin are playing chess with each other:
FIFTH FUNNY STORY ABOUT HOW EMPRESS ANNA IOANNOVNA BECAME IDLE.
You all know very well that Peter the Great had a feeble-minded brother, Ivan. By the way, there is no need to laugh at this, because in order to be considered feeble-minded in the old days, all you would have to do is not believe in God.
So, the feeble-minded brother Peter Ivan had a daughter, who was named Anna, who then became the Russian empress during palace coups... She was married to the Duke of Courland. Well, we celebrated a wedding there, everything is as it should be. On the way to Courland, the duke died. The official version claims that he was old and died of a heart ... A more avid-like version says that the dear was distant, the wife was young ... well, the duke could not resist, overdid it, so to speak ... 🙂
This is how Anna Ioannovna became a widow ... which did not prevent her from becoming the Russian empress.
SIXTH FUNNY STORY. VERA ZASULICH
Vera Zasulich known for shooting at the mayor of St. Petersburg, General Trepov. I fired twice, but did not hit, or I will hit but where I was aiming. As a result, the Eral remained alive, and a trial was perpetrated over Thief, which, as you remember, became the most advanced: with a lawyer, a prosecutor's office and a jury. So at the trial, the lawyer presented the case in such a way that Vera Zasulich became a victim of terrorists and she is not really to blame, he came himself 🙂
And what do you think? The jury acquitted the terrorist who successfully fled abroad after the trial. The authorities were about to catch it, but it was too late ...
THE SEVENTH FUNNY STORY
What really started Russo-Japanese war. Otsu incident = >>
EIGHT FUN STORY: HIROO ONODA
Hiroo Onoda is an officer in the Japanese army who fought in World War II in the Philippines until 1974. Officially, the authorities pronounced him dead, but he did not die, but fought. He did not believe all the rumors that the war had ended back in 1945, and only when his immediate general came to the Philippines, who gave him an assignment, and gave the order to surrender his weapons - Onoda obeyed. Subsequently, Onoda left Japan for Brazil, hiding from undue attention to himself. After all, he just followed the order and stood to the end. Since 1984, Hiroo Onoda has been writing his memoirs. As I read, I will definitely unsubscribe on them.
And now you ask why he did not make himself seppuku (harahiri). In August 1945, the order was given not to do seppuku, but to stand to the last.
I think let's stop at these eight funny facts and stories. I hope they somehow entertained you. I am planning a few more posts on this topic, so don't miss it! Until next time!
In 1992, a group of Australians set themselves the goal of winning the jackpot of the national lottery by all means. They invested $ 5 million in lottery tickets(at a dollar per ticket) to cover almost every possible combination and won $ 27 million.
II
One nun really needed a ladder, and she had no one to turn to. The devout woman began to pray fervently to the patron saint of carpenters, Saint Joseph. Soon a man appeared on the doorstep, who offered his services and in a couple of months made a beautiful strong spiral staircase... When the work was completed, the man simply disappeared without receiving any payment or gratitude, and all attempts to find him were unsuccessful. It is curious that the staircase is made without any supports, without a single nail, and at the same time makes a 360-degree turn. 
III
Elephants rape and kill rhinos. Only in one National park Pilanesberg (South Africa), 63 such cases were reported. 
IV
In 1995, the New York-based magazine Newsweek published an article “Why the web can never be Nirvana,” mocking the future of the internet. The author of the article scoffed at the idea that someday people will find out the news, buy flights and study online. This article can still be read on the website of the publication. 
V
There is a territory between Egypt and Sudan that no state claims. It is called Bir-Tavil and is a quadrangle with an area of about 2000 kilometers. In theory, this territory should now belong to Egypt. However, in 1958, Egypt demanded that Sudan return to the borders of 1899 and the transfer of the Halaib Triangle, abandoning Bir Tawil in return. Sudan refused. So Bir-Tavil turned out to be the only "no-man's" territory outside Antarctica. 
VI
In 1730, the French pirate Olivier Levasseur was sentenced to the gallows. Before his execution, he unexpectedly threw a note with a cryptogram into the crowd, shouting: "Find my treasures, if you can!" The treasure has not yet been found. 
Vii
During the excavations of an ancient Roman temple in London's Southwark, a jar of ointment was discovered, which is at least 2,000 years old. The substance has retained its structure, even quite clear fingerprints remained on it. 
VIII
The largest robbery in Japan took place in 1968. Once transported large sum money, a bank car was stopped by a policeman on a motorcycle. He said that according to his information, a bomb was planted in the car and ordered everyone to get out. Then he climbed inside, “to render harmless explosive device”. Suddenly the car was filled with smoke and the bank employees accompanying the valuable cargo fled in panic. And the “policeman” calmly left. During this robbery (the crime scene in the photo below), 300 million yen was stolen, and it still remains unsolved. 
IX
Most of the borders of the Middle East were established by a pair of European aristocrats in 1916. Frenchman François Georges-Picot and Englishman Mark Sykes developed the so-called Sykes-Picot Agreement, which delimited the spheres of interests of Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy in the Middle East after the First World War. 
X
In 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace. Went for a swim with friends in the bay and disappeared. He could not drown, as he was an excellent swimmer, there were no sharks in those places, the cheerful prime minister had no reason to commit suicide. Holt's body was never found. This disappearance has entered Australian folklore. The expression “to make Harold Holt” means to disappear suddenly and mysteriously among the locals. 
XI
In May 2013, an American Airlines plane flying from Los Angeles to New York was forced to make an emergency landing in order to expel fan Whitney Houston, who drove passengers and crew to despair. The woman, not stopping with good obscenities, screamed the famous hit “I Will Always love you” and flatly refused to shut up. She sang even when the police took her out of the car:
History is a rather vast subject, and it is impossible to fully study it, especially in the smallest detail. Sometimes these seemingly insignificant details can be the most interesting part of it. Here are some interesting facts from history that will not be covered in the lessons.
1.
Albert Einstein could become president. In 1952 he was offered the post of the second president of Israel, but he refused.
2.
Kim Jong Il was a good composer and the Korean leader composed 6 operas in his entire life. 
3.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has always been inclined. In 1173, the construction team of the Leaning Tower of Pisa noticed that the base was curved. Construction was halted for nearly 100 years, but the structure was never straight. 
4.
Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but by Indian mathematicians. 
5.
Before the invention of alarm clocks, there was a profession of waking other people up in the morning. So, for example, a person had to shoot dried peas at the windows of other people in order to wake them up for work. 
6.
Grigory Rasputin survived many assassination attempts in one day. They tried to poison, shoot and stab him, but he managed to survive. In the end, Rasputin died in a cold river. 
7.
The shortest war in history lasted less than an hour. The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted 38 minutes. 
8.
The longest war in history took place between the Netherlands and the Scilly archipelago. The war lasted 335 years from 1651 to 1989 and suffered no casualties. 
9.
Known as the "Majestic Argentine Bird" with a wingspan of 7 meters, this amazing species is the largest flying bird in history. She lived about 6 million years ago in the open plains of Argentina and the Andes. The bird is a relative of modern vultures and storks, and its feathers reached the size of a samurai sword. 
10.
With the help of sonar, the researchers discovered two strange pyramids at a depth of 1.8 km. Scientists have determined that they are made of a kind of thick glass and reach enormous sizes (larger than the pyramids of Cheops in Egypt). 
11.
These two men with the same name were sentenced to imprisonment in the same prison and look very similar. However, they have never met, are not relatives and are the reason why fingerprints began to be used in the judicial system. 
12.
Foot bandaging is an ancient Chinese tradition where toes were tied to girls' feet. The idea was that the smaller the foot was, the more beautiful and feminine the girl was considered. 
13.
The strangest and most frightening mummies are the Guanajuato mummies. Their twisted faces make them believe that they were buried alive. 
14.
Heroin was once used as a substitute for morphine and was used to relieve coughs in children. 
15.
Joseph Stalin may have been the inventor of Photoshop. After the death or disappearance of some people, photographs with him were edited. 
16.
Recent DNA tests have confirmed that the parents of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun were brother and sister. This explains many of his illnesses and defects. 
17.
The Icelandic Parliament is considered to be the oldest functioning parliament in the world. It was founded in 930. 
18.
For years, miners in South Africa have unearthed mysterious balls about 2.5 cm in diameter with three parallel grooves. The stone from which they are made belongs to the Precambrian period, that is, their age is about 2.8 billion years. 
19.
It is believed that Catholic saints do not decompose. The oldest of the "non-decomposable" is Cecilia of Rome, who was martyred in 177 AD. Her body remains much the same as when it was discovered 1,700 years ago. 
