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History Facts
Mount Rushmore was constructed over 14 years, from 1927 to 1941, with the help of 400 workers. The entire project cost just under one million dollars.
It’s estimated that around 400,000 workers lost their lives during the initial construction of the Great Wall of China.
More police officers have died from illnesses caused by the 9/11 attacks than the number of officers who died on the day of the attack itself.
In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding in a horse-drawn carriage and had to pay a $20 fine.
A peace flame has been burning in Hiroshima, Japan, since it was lit in 1964. It will only be put out once all nuclear bombs on the planet are destroyed.
If the electors of the Holy Roman Emperor did not vote within 30 days, they were only allowed to eat bread and water and were forbidden to leave the city.
Prisoners at Alcatraz had regular warm showers, which made it harder to escape via the ice-cold water surrounding the prison.
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.
In 1941, before the US entered WWII, many Americans mailed tea to Buckingham Palace as a sign of support to England. The Queen, being good and proper, sent thank-you notes.
In 1952, cowboy Euclides Guterres grew tired of low-flying planes harassing his ranch in southern Brazil. To stop them, he managed to lasso a plane’s propeller, becoming a local hero.
In ancient Athens, there were no professional lawyers; citizens represented themselves in court, and could not legally accept fees to plead another’s case.
In 1896, bars in New York often served the same sandwich to different customers all day as a loophole to avoid laws that required them to serve meals with alcohol sales.
Humans have been using yeast to produce alcohol for over 13,000 years, with evidence of beer brewing dating back to 11,000 BC in modern-day Israel.
Pope Fabian, who served from 236 to 250 AD, was appointed to his position because a dove landed on his head during the election. He wasn’t even a candidate.
Bartitsu is a form of martial arts that originated in Victorian England. It was geared toward the upper class as a method of self-defense.
More than 3,000 years ago, Assyrian astronomers recorded Mercury on the MUL.APIN tablets and called it UDU.IDIM.GU₄.UD, meaning “the jumping planet.”
The Canadian government isn’t sure when Canada became a sovereign state. Its Supreme Court ruled that sovereignty occurred sometime between 1919 and 1931.
The bloodiest day in U.S. history was the Civil War Battle of Antietam. In just one day, approximately 23,000 people were killed or maimed. Neither side was victorious.
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.
The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet in Iraq in 1976. Although the tablet has since been lost, the text was preserved.
Helen Keller was related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee through her paternal grandmother, who was his second cousin.
In 1908, Russia was hit with a meteor so large it created an explosion 1,000 times as strong as the Hiroshima bomb and destroyed an area two-thirds the size of Rhode Island.
In the 1st century AD, Scotland was among the few countries that the Roman Empire attempted, but failed, to conquer.
