32 Quirky Historical Tidbits That Can Only Be Made When A Mommy History Book Loves A Daddy Joke Book
Find out which Greek philosopher laughed himself to death
They have funny books, they have history books, but they don’t have funny history books. Maybe they do, but it wouldn’t help our thesis and we can’t stop now to fact-check it. We’ve come too far, and hey, we fact-check enough things around here. Give us this one pass, would ya?
Where were we? Ah, yes. We found some strange, somewhat humorous historical tidbits that you may or may not be able to find in a book somewhere. We know for sure that they’re right here, so maybe just keep reading instead of stopping to look elsewhere.
Napoleon
Leonardo Da Vinci
Chrysippus
The Mona Lisa
Qin Shi Huang
The Titanic
Serbian Spy Dusko Popov
Joan of Arc
The Apollo
Caesar and Brutus
Andrew Jackson
Mary, Queen of Scots
George Washington
The Berlin Wall
The Hogan Sisters
Catal Huyuk
Black Swans
The Illuminati
Opera Singer Frederick Federici
Cats in Space
The Shortest War
Pythgoras
The Leg Funeral
Cereal Box Prizes
Crazy 19th Century Laws
Salt As Money
Central Park
Lacrosse’s Origins
Christmas Lights
Doctors Against Exercise
American Ice in India
Source: The Wall Street Journal