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History Facts
Judy Feld Carr, a Canadian music teacher, secretly led a smuggling operation that rescued 3,228 Jews from Syria between the early 1970s and 2001.
Corporal Frank Buckles was the last surviving American soldier from WWI, passing away in 2011 at age 110. His advice for a long life was, “When you start to die… don’t.”
About 28.4% of Cambodian adults experience symptoms of PTSD from the Khmer Rouge era, during which almost a third of the population was massacred.
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.
In 1920, The New York Times called rockets in space ridiculous and belittled the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard, calling him less educated than a high school student.
Clocks turned “clockwise” because of sundials. As the sun moves across the Northern Hemisphere’s sky, the shadow it casts moves clockwise.
Around 10,000 underground nuclear bunkers were built during the Cold War in Beijing. They were later sold as real estate and are currently inhabited by over a million people.
After the Titanic disaster, survivors and the families of victims filed claims totaling $16 million, but White Star Line contested liability and settled in 1915 for just $664,000.
The name Alfred means “elf counsel” in Old English, combining “ælf” (elf) and “ræd” (counsel). One of the earliest famous Alfreds was Alfred the Great.
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 King of Macedon threatened to raze Sparta, saying “If I bring my army into your land, I will raze your city.” The Spartans replied: “If.” No attempt was made to capture the city.
Helen Keller was related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee through her paternal grandmother, who was his second cousin.
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.
Yuri Gagarin’s first meal in space consisted of two tubes of pureed meat followed by a tube of chocolate sauce for dessert.
Dragonflies existed over 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs, with some prehistoric species having wingspans as large as 2.5 feet.
The first jet aircraft was invented in Nazi Germany. Development started in 1936, and the first takeoff occurred on August 27, 1939.
After the 9/11 attacks, a Maasai tribe in Kenya gifted 14 cows to the United States in a gesture of sympathy and solidarity.
Athenian lawmaker Draco gave Athens its first written code. The word “draconian” comes from his name because his laws were so harsh that even minor offenses were punishable by death.
The longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386 and still stands today.
From 1948 to 1958, a Florida man tricked locals into thinking a 15-foot-tall penguin had visited their local beach by wearing giant cast-iron shoes shaped like penguin feet.
The original Star-Spangled Banner was sewn on a brewery floor in Baltimore in 1813 by Mary Pickersgill and her daughter.
Victorian fossil hunter Mary Anning sold fossils, bones, and shells by the sea. Folklore ties her to the phrase “She sells seashells by the seashore,” but no evidence supports it.
Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool” made history as the very first song to hit number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 on August 4, 1958.
