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In 18th-century England, having a pineapple was a symbol of wealth because of high import fees. They were often used as displays instead of being eaten.
Western mathematicians did not accept negative numbers for over 18 centuries. They treated them as absurd solutions to equations.
“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.
When Blackbeard captured ships, many of the enslaved Africans on board would go on to become pirates. By the time he died, nearly one-third of his crew were former slaves.
In 1943, U.S. officials imposed a short-lived ban on sliced bread as a wartime conservation measure, which lasted less than two months.
Thomas Edison invented an electric pen in 1876, which was later adapted to become the first electric tattoo machine in 1891.
When Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew, Louis, was made king of Holland, he mixed up his words and told the crowd, “I am the Rabbit of Holland” instead of “I am the King.”
The videotapes originally used to record the Apollo 11 Moon landing were accidentally erased during a period when video tapes were scarce.
In 1889, Margherita pizza was crafted to honor Queen Margherita, using ingredients that symbolize the Italian flag’s colors: tomato, mozzarella, and basil.
When coffee first emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, it was considered a drug, and its consumption was forbidden.
In the 1930s, Meyer Lansky (a major Jewish mob figure) frequently disrupted Nazi rallies by breaking limbs, cracking skulls, and throwing attendants out of windows.
The first known minted coins were in Lydia in the late 7th century BC using a natural gold and silver alloy. They were created under early Lydian kings to standardize trade and payments.
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.
California was once a Russian colony. Until 1841, Russians controlled land as far south as Bodega Bay, just 50 miles north of San Francisco.
In historical England, a “gentleman” referred to a man of inherited social rank, lower than an esquire but higher than a yeoman or tradesman.
After being shot in the chest during a campaign event on October 14, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt delivered an 84-minute speech with the bullet lodged in his chest.
In 1900, Chinatown in Honolulu had a series of controlled fires to prevent the spread of the plague. The fires got out of control, but four months later, Honolulu was plague-free.
A nickelodeon was a type of early movie theater that charged 5 cents (a nickel) for admission and was the precursor to modern cinema.
In 1942, 12-year-old Calvin Graham enlisted in the U.S. Navy by lying about his age. He became a decorated war hero at age 13 but was thrown out of the Navy after his mom found out.
