History Facts

    Random History Facts

    There are 163 History Facts!

    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
    77
    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
    149
    In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
    60
    During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
    23
    Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
    55
    Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
    28
    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
    46
    In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
    29