interesting historical facts

[devilish_angel]

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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

[devilish_angel]

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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

[devilish_angel]

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Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.

[devilish_angel]

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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

[devilish_angel]

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The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

[devilish_angel]

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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible

[devilish_angel]

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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old

[devilish_angel]

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Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

[muqawwee123]

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In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.

what was the will and why she had to hide that

[muqawwee123]

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@devilish_angel

Joseph Niepce developed the world’s first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen

invention by clergy

[muqawwee123]

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In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscar for his role in The Godfather

Oscar ki bizti kharab ho gai

[muqawwee123]

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Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road

taare ginene ki machine bana leta

[muqawwee123]

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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

which disease

[punjabi_kuri_1]

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Oscar ki bizti kharab ho gai

Bizti kaisy kharab hoti hai...

i hear this word quite often but aj tak samjh nahi lagii

[muqawwee123]

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@devilish_angel

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

and thats why he made Mona Lisa

[muqawwee123]

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@devilish_angel

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.

I thought it might be by a lady inventor j/k

[punjabi_kuri_1]

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@muqawwee123

and thats why he made Mona Lisa

Why you hate Mona Lisa so much…

[muqawwee123]

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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible

I heard about wine too

[muqawwee123]

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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old

Are you sure? I heard that its a recent blunder

[muqawwee123]

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@punjabi_kuri

Why you hate Mona Lisa so much…

do you like that. I don’t find it so artistic as people claim it to be