Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.

In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked
nose!

有没有童鞋是"鹰鼻"的叻？

In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!

Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
NICE.....

White bread was the most desirable of medieval breads
because it was the most finely ground and the least likely to have dirt and other
stuff in it.

"drinking tobacco" as smoking was first called.

In the Renaissance period, beer was safer to drink than water – the beer’s fermentation process cooked the bacteria that caused diseases such as cholera and
dysentery.

The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin
zoo!

Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand

A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.

when Ben Franklin was only 16 years old, he started writing letters to "The New England Courant" (the first newspaper in Boston, and his brother's newspaper) under the name of a fictional character he called "Silence Dogood"
He knew that his brother would never let him publish anything under his own name, so Benjamin Franklin wrote letters to the paper using the name Mrs. Dogood.
"Mrs. Dogood" wrote very opinionated letters! She wrote about the treatment of women, and she ridiculed the goings on of the world around her.
Mrs. Dogood became a popular guest contributor and published around 14 letters before Franklin finally confessed to his brother that he was the writer behind "her" letters.

While the moon landing may be the single most remembered event in the history of mankind and President John Kennedy, as the man who championed and led this accomplishment, often forgotten is Kennedy’s true motive for the daunting task.
In a conversation with James Webb, the director of NASA at the time, Kennedy was quoted as saying, “Everything we do ought to really be tied into getting on to the Moon ahead of the Russians [...] otherwise we shouldn’t be spending that kind of money, because I’m not interested in space [...] The only justification for [the cost] is because we hope to beat [the USSR] to demonstrate that instead of being behind by a couple of years, by God, we passed them.”
Due to this passion to push the U.S. past the Soviets, Kennedy essentially diverted all of NASA’s funds to the moon landing, much to the dismay of Webb, who favored a broader approach of discovery and programs