13 odd facts from history
1. Napoleon was once attacked by rabbits
2. Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into an actual, functioning telephone in 1929.
3. In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money. The prizes were live babies.
4. England’s King George I was actually German.
5. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
6. Ancient Egyptians used slabs of stones as pillows.
7. Thomas Edison electrocuted a lady circus elephant to death.
8. In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
9. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men’s beards.
10.People have been wearing glasses for about 700 years.
11. Marie Currie, who twice won the Nobel Prize, and discovered radium, was not allowed to become a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman.
12. The longest reigning monarch in history was Pepi II, who ruled Egypt for 90 years, 2566 to 2476 BC.
13. Roman Emperor Caligula was so upset by the death of his sister Drusila that he imposed a year of mourning. During this time, everyone in the empire was forbidden to dine with his family, laugh or take a bath. The penalty for transgression was death.
Anniston Weber is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Guidon and a senior this year. She has been involved with the Guidon for three years. In addition to being...
