History Facts

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.

The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!

Within a century of Muhammad's death, Islam had spread across half the known world, from Spain to the borders of China.

Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love potions.

To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!

Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years.

Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.

Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.

Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.

There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.

It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!

In Idaho, You may not fish on a camel's back.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

Thrity-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.

The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.

There are only 14 blimps in the world.

The New York Stock Exchange operated from a coffee shop for 25 years! After 24 brokers founded the NYSE under a buttonwood tree in 1792, they built the Tontine Coffee House in 1793 as their headquarters, where traders gathered for deals over coffee until 1817.

Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.

The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!