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According to the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, Russia’s oldest polling institution, 49% of Russians believe that the moon landing was a hoax.
Nutella was invented during World War II when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
In 1983, a Royal Navy Sea Harrier made an emergency landing on the Spanish ship Alraigo; the owners claimed they “rescued” the jet under maritime law and received £570,000 compensation.
The Quakers invented price tags to stop haggling, believing it was unethical to charge customers differently.
“Fox tossing” was a pastime in the 18th century. The goal was to see which team of two could send a fox into the air the highest using a piece of cloth.
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, winning a seat in the House of Representatives in 1916, four years before women had the right to vote.
Casimir Zeglen, a Polish priest, invented a silk bulletproof vest and personally demonstrated its effectiveness by wearing it during public tests where he was shot at.
All new FBI special agents and intelligence analysts must visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of their training.
Popularized by the Shakespeare play, many people think Julius Caesar’s last words were “And you, Brutus?” In reality, he said, “You too, my child?”
Texas’s iconic Lone Star flag was not technically the state flag from 1879 to 1933 due to a repealed law, despite being originally adopted in 1839.
In the 1920s, the U.S. sold a radioactive “health” drink called Radithor. Its biggest fan, millionaire Eben Byers, drank about 1,400 bottles before dying from radiation-induced cancers.
Zhang Zongchang, who ruled Shandong in the 1920s, was nicknamed “Three Don’t Knows” because he never knew how much money or how many concubines he had, nor how many men were in his army.
Some of the oldest dice ever discovered were found at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. Used between 3100 and 2400 BC, they were carved from bone, often from sheep or cattle.
In 1992, a mere 359 years after condemning him for heresy for it, the Vatican admitted that Galileo’s theory that the Earth revolves around the sun was correct.
At the end of the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, Paul McCartney performed “The End” and “Hey Jude.” He was paid £1 so that his volunteer role met UK contract law.
On August 25, 2010, a plane in Congo crashed due to panic caused by an escaped crocodile, resulting in 20 deaths and two survivors, including the crocodile.
From 1777 until its admission to the United States in 1791, Vermont existed as a self-governing independent state. It had its own copper coins and operated its own postal service.
Thomas Edison invented an electric pen in 1876, which was later adapted to become the first electric tattoo machine in 1891.
In the 19th Century, endurance walking was a huge spectator sport. Pedestrianism, as it was known, often saw participants walk hundreds of miles.
The original Star-Spangled Banner was sewn on a brewery floor in Baltimore in 1813 by Mary Pickersgill and her daughter.
In October 2002, the Iraqi government proposed that George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein settle their differences through a formal, in-person duel instead of their nations going to war.
The Black Death killed so many people in the 14th century that the world population did not recover to pre-plague levels until the 17th century.
