Columbus's sensational achievement obscures the fact that he was one of the
most successful failures in history.

Yet Columbus was at first so certain that he had skirted the rim of the "Indies"
that he called the native peoples Indians, a gross geographical misnomer that
somehow stuck

当时看到上面那一段的时候， 我笑的差点喘不过气来。。

"They thirsted mightily for gold; they stuffed themselves with it; they starved for it; they lusted for it like pigs."

"We suffer from a strange disease of the heart," the captain allegedly informed
the emissaries," for which the only konwn remedy is gold."

这借口强悍。。我以后也要这么跟人家要金子

The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal

The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.

The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'