Interesting facts you didn't know

The name Santa Claus is synonymous with Christmas time, the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Actually, many elements ...

If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.

The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

The US gov killed 10,000 people by poisoning alcohol during prohibition to get people to stop drinking.h

Over 1 million Europeans were taken as slaves by North Africans between 1530 and 1780.

The record for the most weddings is held by King Mongkut of Siam, who had 9000 weddings and 9000 wives.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in ...

Did you know that the American Civil War has never ended. General Lee (the official representative of the South) is 16 April, only signed th...

The biggest battle that ever, was the Battle of Kursk in World War II, between the Soviet Union and Germany. This battle was the turning poi...

The Roman emperor Trajan conquered Dacia (in today's Romania) 102 e.d. and destroyed almost the entire local population, and settled its...

The legendary chief of Zulu tribe Shaka Zulu, who is in the 19th century from a small tribe of only 2000 people made a nation of over a mill...

The first self-propelled car was invented by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769th It was designed with three wheels and an engine in the front along wit...

In Rome, there were people who specialized in plucking armpit. Somewhere around 1 AD Roman aristocrats interested in fashion, removed all of...

It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimo...

Did you know that O.K really mean zero killed. During the American civil war the troops returning from battle, they report to their superior...

In ancient China, doctors could receive fees only if their patient was cured. If it deteriorated, they would have to pay the patient.