FUN FACTS

 

1.     In the 1800s, doctors recommended smoking as a cure for asthma. 

2.      Adolf Hitler helped design the Volkswagen beetle; The car was designed as part of a Hitler Revived German Initiative to create an affordable and practical car that everyone could own.

3.      During WW2, the Russian military trained dogs to run suicide missions with mines strapped on their backs.

4.      In 1958, An American pilot flying a B-47 plane that was carrying an atomic bomb, accidentally dropped the bomb onto South Carolina. Luckily, it didn't explode. (The bomb was bigger than the one dropped in Nagasaki).

5.      In 1881, the South African Railway officially employed a baboon. The baboon was paid 20 cents a day and half bottle of beer each week. In his 9 years of employment he never made a mistake.

6.       Albert Einstein was offered the of Israel in 1952, but he declined stating "I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel, and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it.

7.      During WW2, prisoners of war in Canada were treated so nicely that they did not want to leave Canada even after being released.

8.      In ancient Greece, they believed that people with red hair became vampires after death.

9.      Queen Elizabeth 1 never married or had children. Her death led to the end of the reign of the House of Tudor.

10.  The ancient Egyptians used a form of toothpaste made from a mixture of ashes, powdered fruit and wine.