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.

In 1562, Queen Elizabeth I coated her face with vinegar and white lead to cover up her smallpox scars. She also stuffed her cheeks with rags to combat the facial wasting associated with age and disease

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.

funny