1. In the army of Napoleon, soldiers could address the generals on "you".
2. In Russia, grasshoppers were called dragonflies.
3. Punishments with rods were abolished in Russia only in 1903.
4. The "Hundred Years War" lasted 116 years.
5. What we call the Cuban missile crisis, the Americans call the Cuban crisis, and the Cubans themselves call the October crisis.
6. The shortest war in history was the war between Great Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. It lasted exactly 38 minutes.
7. The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan was on a plane called the Enola Gay. The second - on the plane Bock's Car
8. Under Peter I, a special agency was created in Russia to receive petitions and complaints, which was called … racketeering.
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9. On June 4, 1888, the New York State Congress passed a bill to abolish execution by hanging. The reason for this "humane" act was the introduction of a new method of capital punishment - the electric chair.
10. According to the agreement concluded between the engineer Gustave Eiffel and the city authorities of Paris, in 1909 the Eiffel Tower was to be dismantled (!) And sold for scrap (!)
11. The Spanish Inquisition persecuted many groups of the population, but more than other Cathars, Marranos and Moriscos. The Cathars are followers of the Albigensian heresy, the Marrana are baptized Jews, and the Moriscos are baptized Muslims.
12. The first Japanese who came to Russia was Denbey - the son of a merchant from Osaka. His ship was nailed to the shores of Kamchatka in 1695. In 1701 he reached Moscow. Peter I assigned him to teach Japanese to several teenagers.
13. Only in 1947 in England was the position of a man who was supposed to fire a cannon when Napoleon Bonaparte (!) Entered England was abolished.
14. Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Gounod, Lecomte de Lisle and many other cultural figures signed the famous protest against … "the disfigurement of Paris by the Eiffel Tower."
15. When the famous German physicist Albert Einstein died, his last words went with him. The nurse next to him did not understand a word of German.
16. In the Middle Ages, students were forbidden to carry knives, swords and pistols and appear on the street after 21 o'clock, because … this posed a great danger to the townspeople.
17. On the tombstone of the monument to Suvorov it is written simply: "Here lies Suvorov."
18. Between the two world wars, more than 40 different governments have changed in France.
19. The last 13 centuries, the imperial throne in Japan has been occupied by the same dynasty.
20. One of the American planes in Vietnam hit itself with a missile.
21. The mad Roman emperor Caligula once decided to declare war on the God of the Seas - Poseidon, after which he ordered his soldiers to randomly throw their spears into the water. By the way, from Roman "Caligula" means "little shoe".
22. Abdul Qassim Ismail - the grand vizier of Persia (10th century) was always near his library. If he went somewhere, then the library "followed" him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by four hundred camels. Moreover, the books (i.e. camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.
23. Nothing is impossible now. If you want to buy a car in Guryevsk - please, you want - in another city. But the fact remains that it needs to be registered and license plates obtained. So, the very first license plate was attached to his car by a Berlin merchant Rudolf Herzog. It happened in 1901. There were only three signs on his number - IA1 (IA are the initials of his young wife Johanna Anker, and one means that she is his first and only one).
24. At the end of the evening prayer on the ships of the Russian Imperial Fleet, the chief of watch commanded "Cover yourself!", Which meant putting on hats, and at the same time the end of prayer signal was given. This prayer usually lasted 15 minutes.
25. In 1914, the German colonies were inhabited by 12 million people, and the British - almost 400 million.
26. In the entire history of recording temperatures in Russia, the coldest winter was the winter of 1740.
27. In the modern army, the rank of cornet corresponds to the ensign, and the rank of lieutenant is the lieutenant.
28. The Thai national anthem was written in 1902 by the Russian (!) Composer Pyotr Shchurovsky.
29. Until 1703, Chistye Prudy in Moscow was called … Rotten Ponds.
30. The first book published in England was devoted to … chess.
31. World population in 5000 BC. was 5 million people.
32. In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
33. A list of gifts to Stalin in honor of his seventieth birthday was printed in Soviet newspapers from December 1949 to March 1953.
34. Nicholas I gave his officers a choice between a guardhouse and listening to Glinka's operas as punishment.
35. Above the entrance to the Lyceum of Aristotle was the inscription: "The entrance here is open to anyone who wishes to dispel the delusions of Plato."
36. The third decree after the "Decree on Peace" and "Decree on Land" issued by the Bolsheviks was the "Orthography Decree".
37. During the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79, in addition to the well-known city of Pompeii, the cities of Herculaneum and Stabia also perished.
38. Fascist Germany - the "Third Reich", the Hohenzoller Empire (1870-1918) - the "Second Reich", the Holy Roman Empire - the "First Reich".
39. In the Roman army, the soldiers lived in tents for 10 people. At the head of each tent was a senior, who was called … the dean.
40. A tight corset and a large number of bracelets on the hands in England during the Tudor period were considered a sign of virginity.
41. Agents of the FBI received the right to carry weapons only in 1934, 26 years after the founding of the FBI.
42. Until the Second World War, any touch of the emperor was considered sacrilege in Japan.
43. On February 16, 1568, the Spanish Inquisition passed the death sentence to all (!) Residents of the Netherlands.
44. In 1911, in China, braids were recognized as a sign of feudalism and therefore their wearing was prohibited.
45. The first party card of the CPSU belonged to Lenin, the second to Brezhnev (the third to Suslov, and the fourth to Kosygin).
46. The American Physical Education League, the first nudist organization in the United States, was founded on December 4, 1929.
47. In 213 BC. the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huangdi gave the order to burn all the books in the country.
48. In Madagascar in 1610, King Ralambo created the state of Imerin, which means "as far as the eye can see."
49. The first Russian saints were Boris and Gleb, canonized in 1072.
50. One of the punishments for criminals in Ancient India was … ear mutilation.
51. Of the 266 people who occupied the papal throne, 33 died a violent death.
52. The original in Russia was called the stick with which they beat the witness, seeking the truth.
53. In normal weather, the Romans wore a tunic, and when the cold came - several tunics.
54. In ancient Rome, a group of slaves belonging to one person was called … a surname.
55. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Scorus.
56. Until 1361 in England, legal proceedings were conducted exclusively in French.
57. Having accepted the surrender, the Soviet Union did not sign a peace treaty with Germany, that is, it remained at war with Germany. The war with Germany was ended on January 21, 1955, when the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a corresponding decision. Nevertheless, May 9 is considered Victory Day - the day of the signing of the Act of Germany's unconditional surrender.
58. The eruption of the Mexican volcano Paricutin lasted 9 years (from 1943 to 1952). During this time, the cone of the volcano rose to 2774 meters.
59. To date, archaeologists have discovered in the territory associated with ancient Troy, traces of nine fortress settlements that existed in different eras.