Radioactive makeup was a thing for a while .
History is full of bizarre stories that we rarely learn in the classroom because, quite frankly, they’re not that important.
But, the whole point of trivia is that it’s, well,trivial.So, here are 16 useless history facts that are still worth knowing!
1.There was a top-secret military project to create an ultra-powerful stink bomb.
2.One of the acqueducts built during the Roman Empire is still in use today.
3.In the Soviet Union, people used old X-Rays to listen to banned music.
4.Prime Minister William Gladstone was absolutelyobsessedwith “saving” prostitutes.
5.In the 1936 Olympics, twobest friends, Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe, tied for second in the men’s pole vault. Wanting to share the silver medal, they refused to compete in a tiebreaker.
6.King CharlesVI suffered from the “glass delusion.” He believed that his body was made of glass, and that he might shatter at any moment.
7.Graham crackers and cornflakes were created to make us less horny.
8.Radium was a popular ingredient in beauty products.
9.People used to call cancer “the wolf.”
10.The NAACP owns the rights to all of Dorothy Parker’s works.
11.Abraham Lincoln grew out his beard after a young girl told him it would make him more electable.
12.In Ancient Greece, people used olive oil as a lube.
13.Commando, a military pigeon, carried out over 90 successful missions during World War II.
14.A plant called Silphium, frequently used as a form of contraceptive, was so valuable that Julius Caesar stockpiled it in the Roman treasury.
15.Ski ballet (think figure skating, but on skis) used to be an Olympic event.
Here’s a video of ski ballet:
Y’all , we got ta add this sport back .
16.Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi were pen-pals.
You, after reading this list:
youtube.comY’all, we gotta bring this sport back.
