It’s possible you already knew these historical facts and if you did, congratulations, here’s your cookie. If not, I hope you enjoy these 5 Historical Facts you have never heard.
ORIGINS OF SIDEBURNS
An American soldier and Civil War General, Ambrose Everett Burnside sported unique facial hair which led to the term, “sideburns.”
THE RUNAWAY ELEPHANT
On 21 July 1950, circus director Franz Althoff had Tuffi, then a four year old Indian elephant, take the monorail in Wuppertal, as a marketing gag.
The elephant apparently did not think the gag was that funny. Tuffi trumpeted wildly and ran through the wagon, broke through a window and jumped off the local monorail and fell some 39 ft (12 meters) down into the Wupper river. She lived another 40 years to tell the tale.
Human Zoos
Human beings were once kept in zoo’s the same as animals. What’s even more unbelievable is that, more than 100 years later, scores of women and children are still being sold as slaves today by extremist militant groups in the Middle East.
Worthless Money as Wallpaper
Using banknotes as wallpaper and building blocks during hyperinflation in Germany (then called the Weimar Republic) in 1923.
Hyperinflations are usually caused by large persistent government deficits financed primarily by money creation (printing money). Now why does this ring a bell for us today?
BEFORE POLIO VACCINATION
An iron lung is a form of medical ventilator that enables a person to breathe when normal muscle control has been lost.
These images make you realize just how bad polio used to be before the vaccine was invented.
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