19 facts that you would be amazed to read
1. Charles Sherwood Stratton was born 4 January 1838, and his growth virtually stopped at six months, reaching only one meter at adulthood. He was picked up by P.T. Barnum and became a huge circus success as "General Tom Thumb."
2. No-one knows Albert Einstein's last words, because his attendant nurse did not speak German.
3. Women in the Tiwi tribe of Northern Australia are married at birth.
4. Jeweler Otto Rohwedder patented the bread slicer in 1928. It had taken him sixteen years to perfect sliced bread.
5. The active ingredient in Chinese delicacy, bird's nest soup, is saliva.
6. English Parliament abolished Christmas in 1647.
7. During World War I, a South African monkey was promoted to corporal.
8. "Abracadabra" was originally used to cure those afflicted with hay fever.
9. One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a half-ton, three-meter in diameter block of cheese.
10. Julius Caesar wore his signature laurel wreath in order to cover up his oncoming baldness.
11. Peter the Great had his wife's lover's head cut off, then had it preserved in alcohol and placed next to her bed.
12. Sir Winston Churchill "rationed" himself fifteen cigars a day.
13. During and between the two World Wars, France was controlled by forty different governments.
14. David Atchison was President of the United States for one day in 1849. He spent most of it sleeping.
15. Paul Revere was a dentist.
16. There are 240 dots in Pac-Man.
17. Urination was once used as a way of washing clothes.
18. George Washington grew marijuana in his Mount Vernon garden.
19. In Russia, it's a criminal offense to drive around in a dirty car.
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