The story is full of the most incredible facts and oddities. People in the entire history of their existence not only created, but many did to harm themselves, believing that they found a panacea from all diseases or the perfect political decision.
In this review, historical facts are collected, which, from the height of centuries, seem somewhat strange.
1. Clothes from asbestos
The Romans used asbestos in clothes and objects of everyday use, such as dishwashers, napkins and tablecloths. Pliny Senior (Roman-Writer-Erudes) said that, unlike conventional fabric, it was possible to clean objects from asbestos, simply throwing them into the fire. He also noted that slaves who wore clothes from asbestos often suffered from lung diseases.2. Heart against the brain
In ancient Egypt, it was believed that people do not think with the help of a brain, and heart. The Egyptians believed that the brain is essentially just a "filling" for the head. For this reason, they thoroughly screamed him from the head during embalming and ejected, and the heart retained with special care.
3. "Cup suit"
During the plague in the Middle Ages, some doctors wore a primitive form of a biological danger costume, which was called a "plaque costume." In the mask of this costume there were red glass eyepieces (to "make an unresponsive evil), as well as the beak, which was often filled with fragrant herbs and spices to kill myazms, which were also believed to be distributed to the plague.
4. 3370 years of war
"Apotheosis of war" - a picture of the Russian artist Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin.
Over the past 3,500 years, there were a total of 230 years without wars. It is worth thinking whether there is any benefit from the "World Movement".
5. Borodachi
Among the urban population of Western Europe and America, the beard came out of fashion at the beginning of the XVII century. In 1698, Peter first ordered all the battles to shave beard, and in 1705 he introduced a beard tax at all.
6. "Tale of two in love"
The most sold book of the XV century was an erotic book called "Tale of two lovers". Its author was not anyone else as Eney Silvius Piccolomini, otherwise known as the Roman Pope II.
7. Sacred cats
In ancient Egypt, the cat was considered sacred. When the family had a favorite cat, the whole family gave the eyebrows and stayed in Touré, while the eyebrows did not grow rebel.
8. 20 slaves per Spartan
In 200 BC The Greek city of Sparta was at the peak of his power. At this time, each citizen Sparta had 20 slaves.
9. The prolonged war
Andorra announced the war of Kaiserovskaya Germany during the First World War, but did not actually participate in hostilities. What is interesting, the country officially was in a state of war until 1957, since it was not included in the Versailles peace treaty.
10. "Western Schism"
During the so-called "Western Schism" or "Great Western Collage" (1378 - 1417), three people simultaneously argued that they were true dads. When the Cardinals refused to submit to the elected poise to Pope Urban VI and declared him the mentally ill, they elected an "alternative" dad of Clement VII. It caused large distribution in the church, which led to the election of the third dad to the Cathedral of Pisa.
11. From pirates in bankers
The founder of the Bank of England was Sir William Paterson. At the same time, few people know that before the foundation of the bank, he was suspected of piracy.12. Tea bags
In 1904, tea bags were completely accidentally invented. Their inventor Thomas Sullivan (Trader Team) decided that he would be cheaper to send small samples of tea to potential customers in silk bags, and not in boxes. Recipients mistakenly considered that it was necessary to brew these bags. Soon Sullivan literally poured orders on his "tea bags".
13. The first parachute
The oldest parachute design can be found in the anonymous Italian manuscript of the Renaissance, which dates back to 1470. The design looked like a frame attached to the conical dome. The person was suspended with this frame with the help of four straps attached to his belt on the belt.
14. Tobacco blades
At the end of the 1700s, there were tobacco enemas. With their help, the tobacco smoke was blown into a direct intestine of the patient for various medical purposes, first of all for resuscitation of drowning victims.
15. Ancient depilation
In ancient Rome there were people who specialized in pumping hair with armpits. Somewhere about 1 G. N.E. Among the Roman aristocrats was fashionable to remove all hair on the body. The following requirements were presented to the people of this profession: the presence of a tweezers, a strong hand and ability to hold the resistent client on the spot.
Historical facts are almost all peoples, nations and countries. Today we want to tell you about different interesting facts that many people know about which many know, but will also be interested to read again. The world is not ideal as a person and the facts about which we will tell will be bad. It will be interesting for you, as each reader finds out that something cognitive as part of its interests.
After 1703, the frowning ponds in Moscow began to be called ... clean ponds.
In the time of Genghis Khan in Mongolia, they executed everyone who dared to perseve in any reservoir. Since the water in the desert was valued more than gold.
On December 9, 1968, the computer mouse was presented at the show of interactive devices in California. A patent for this gadget received Douglas Engelbart in 1970.
In England in 1665-1666, the plague devastated entire villages. It was then that medicine recognized the smoking that allegedly destroyed the deadly infection. Children and adolescents were punished if they refused to smoke.
Only 26 years after the founding of the federal bureau of investigations, his agents received the right to carry weapons.
In the Middle Ages, the sailors specially inserted at least one golden tooth, even sacrificing healthy. What for? It turns out, for a black day, so that in the event of death, he could be buried from home with honor.
The world's first mobile phone is Motorola Dynatac 8000X (1983). 
14 years before the death of the Titanic vessel (April 15, 1912), the story of Morgan Robertson, who foresaned the tragedy was published. Interestingly, according to the book, Titan's ship collided with Iceberg and sank, exactly, exactly, as it really happened.
Dean - Senior over soldiers in tents, in which the Roman army lived for 10 people, was called Dean.
The most expensive bath in the world is cut out of a very rare stone called Caijou. It is said that it has healing properties, and its prey is held in secret so far! Its owner became one billionaire from the Arab Emirates, who wished to remain unknown. The price of Le Gran Queen is $ 1,700,000. 
English Admiral Nelson, who lived from 1758 to 1805, slept in his cabin in the coffin, which was cut out of the mast of the enemy French ship.
The list of gifts for Stalin in honor of the 70th anniversary was published in advance in newspapers for three more than a year before the event.
How many types of cheese are produced in France? Famous Cheesemist Andre Simon in his book "On Cheese" mentioned 839 varieties. Kamambur and Roquefort received the greatest fame, and the first appeared relatively recently, only 300 years ago. This type of cheese is made of milk with the addition of cream. Already after 4-5 days of ripening on the surface of the cheese, the mold crust appears, which is a special fungal culture.
The famous inventor of the sewing machine Isaac Singer was simultaneously married at once on five women. In general, all women he had 15 children. Mary called all her daughters.
27 million people died in the Great Patriotic War.
One of the unusual tourists on traveling by car belongs to two Americans - James Hargis and Charles Craton. In 1930, they overcame at the "rear" over 11 thousand kilometers, driving from New York to Los Angeles, and then returning back.
Not only two hundred years ago, not only men, but women participated in the famous Spanish battles with bulls. It happened in Madrid, and on January 27, 1839, a very significant significant corrid was held, because only a weak sexual representative took part in it. The Spaniard of Pahueler received the greatest fame as Matador. Women were forbidden to participate in Corrida in the early 20th century, when Spain ruled fascists. Women were able to defend their right to enter the arena only in 1974.
The first computer, in the kit of which the mouse turned on, was the mini-computer of the Xerox 8010 Star Information System (English), represented in 1981. Xerox mouse had three buttons and cost 400 US dollars, which corresponds to almost $ 1,000 in the prices of 2012, taking into account inflation. In 1983, Apple released its own single-point mouse for the Lisa computer, the cost of which was reduced to $ 25. The mouse has gained wide fame thanks to the use of Apple Macintosh and later in Windows for IBM PC compatible computers.
Jules Verne wrote 66 novels, including unfinished, as well as more than 20 stories and stories, 30 plates, several documentary and scientific works.
When in 1798, Napoleon was heading to Egypt with his army, he captured Malta along the way.
For those six days that Napoleon spent on the island, he:
Canceled the power of the Knights of the Maltese Order
-In the reform of the administration with the creation of municipalities and financial management
-The check slavery and all feudal privileges
-Aded 12 judges
- laid the foundations of family law
-The initial and general public education
The 65-year-old David Bayird for collecting money on research problems of prostate cancer and chest spent its own marathon. For 112 days, David did 4115 kilometers, while pushing a wheelbarrow in front. And so crossed the Australian continent. At the same time, he was daily in motion 10-12 hours, and for all the running time with a wheelbarrow covered a distance equal to 100 traditional marathons. This is a courageous man, visiting 70 cities, made donations from Australian residents in the amount of about 20 thousand local dollars.
In Europe, the lollipops appeared in the XVII century. First, they were actively used by Lekari.
The group "Aria" has a song called "Will and Mind", few people know that this is the Nazis motto in fascist Italy.
The Frenchman from the town of Landes - Silwain Dornon did the way from Paris to Moscow, moving on the stilts. After going on the road on March 12, 1891, covering 60 kilometers every day, the brave Frenchman reached Moscow for incomplete 2 months. 
The capital of Japan, Tokyo, at the moment - the largest city in the world with a population of 37.5 million people.
Rokossovsky - Marshal at the same time USSR and Poland.
Despite the problem of the opinion that the transfer of Alaska by the United States of America was held Catherine, the Russian Empress had no relation to this historical deal.
One of the main reasons for this event is the military weakness of the Russian Empire, which became apparent during the Crimean War.
The decision to sell Alaska was taken during a special meeting, which was held in St. Petersburg on December 16, 1866. It was attended by all the top leadership of the country.
The decision was made unanimously.
Some time later, the Russian Messenger in the capital of the United States Baron Edward Andreevich Glass offered the Government of America to buy Alaska at Ri. The offer was approved.
And in 1867 for 7.2 million gold Alaska, passed under the jurisdiction of the United States of America.
In 1502-1506 Leonardo da Vinci wrote his most significant work - the portrait of Mona Lisa, the wife of Messer Francesco del Jokondo. After many years, the picture received a simpler name - "Jocona".
Girls in ancient Greece got married for 15 years. For men, middle age for marriage was a more solid term - 30 - 35 years old. The bride chose her husband himself for his daughter and gave money or things as a dowry.
In 1992, a group of Australians was aimed at won by the National Lottery Jack-Pope. They invested $ 5 million in lottery tickets (on a ticket dollar) to cover almost all possible combinations and won $ 27 million.
II.
One nun really needed a staircase, and it was not to turn to anyone. A piquette woman became diligently praying to the patron of carpenters to St. Joseph. Soon the man appeared on the threshold, who offered his services and in a couple of months I made an excellent strong screw staircase. When the work was completed, the man just disappeared without receiving any fee or gratitude, and all attempts to find him were unsuccessful. It is curious that the staircase was made without any backup, without a single nail and at the same time makes a turn of 360 degrees. 
III
Elephants rape and kill rhinos. Only in one National Pilanamberg National Park (South Africa) registered 63 such cases. 
IV.
In 1995, New York magazine Newsweek published an article "Why the network will never be able to become a nirvana" with ridicule on the future of the Internet. The author of the article raised the idea that someday people would learn news, buy tickets and learn online. This article and now you can read on the publication website. 
V.
Between Egypt and Sudan there is a territory for which not a single state is presented. It is called Bir-Tavly and is a quadrilateral area of \u200b\u200babout 2,000 kilometers. In theory, this territory currently must belong to Egypt. However, in 1958, Egypt demanded that the Sudan returns to the borders of 1899 and the transfer of the Chalaibian triangle, refusing in return from Bir-Tavly. Sudan refused. So Bir-Tavil turned out to be the only "drawing" territory outside Antarctica. 
VI
In 1730, the French pirate of Olivier Levassor was sentenced to the gallows. In front of the execution itself, he suddenly threw a note in the crowd with a cryptogram, shouting: "Find my treasures if you can!" The treasure still did not find. 
VII
During the excavations of the Ancient Roman temple in the London Southwark, a jar was discovered with an ointment, which was not less than 2000 years. The substance has retained its structure, it even remained quite clear fingerprints. 
VIII.
The biggest robbery in Japan occurred in 1968. One day a bank car stopped a police station on a motorcycle. He said that according to his information, the bomb was laid in the car and ordered everyone to go out. Then he got inside, "To neutralize an explosive device." Suddenly, the car was filled with smoke and bank employees who accompanied the valuable cargo, fledged in panic. And the "policeman" quietly left. During this robbery (the crime scene in the photo below) 300 million yen was kidnapped, and it still remains undisclosed. 
IX.
Most of the borders of the Middle East were installed by a pair of European aristocrats in 1916. Frenchman Francois Georges Pico and Englishman Mark Syx developed the so-called "Sayx-Pico Agreement", in which the spheres of interests of Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy in the Middle East after the First World War were delimited. 
X.
In 1967, the Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappeared. I went to swim with friends in the bay and how evaporated. He could not drown, as he was an excellent swimmer, sharks in those places did not turn out, to end the cheerful premiere did not have any reason. The body of the idle did not find it. This disappearance entered the Australian folklore. The expression "Make Harold Holt" means at the local disappear suddenly and mysteriously. 
XI
In May 2013, the aircraft of American Airlines, which flew from Los Angeles to New York was forced to make an emergency landing to expel the fan of Whitney Houston, which brought passengers and crew to despair. Woman without stopping good mate Oral Famous hit "I Will Always Love You" and flatly refused to silence. She sang even when the police took her out of the salon:
Incredible facts
History is a rather extensive subject, and it is impossible to fully study, especially in the smallest detail.
Sometimes these at first glance are minor details can be part of it.
Here are some interesting facts from the history that will not be told in the lessons.
1. Albert Einstein could be president. In 1952 he was offered the post of the second president of Israel, but he refused.
2. Kim Jong Il was a good composer and for the whole life Korean leader composed 6 operas.
3. The Pisa Tower has always been inclined. In 1173, the team of builders of the Pisa Tower noticed that the foundation was twisted. The construction was stopped almost 100 years, but the structure was never straight.
4. Arabic figures were not invented by the Arabs, and Indian mathematicians.
5. Up to the invention of the alarms, a profession existed in order to wake up other people in the morning. So, for example, a man had to shoot a dried pea in the windows of other people to wake them up to work.
6. Grigory Rasputin over a day survived many attempts attempt. He was trying to poison, shoot and stuck, but he managed to survive. In the end, Rasputin died in a cold river.
7. The shortest war in history lasted less than an hour. The Anglo-Zanzibarskaya war lasted 38 minutes.
8. The longest war In history occurred between the Netherlands and the Sillychy archipelago. The war lasted 335 years from 1651 to 1989, and both parties suffered any losses.
People, stories and facts
9. This amazing view known as " Majestic Argentine bird", whose scope of the wings reached 7 meters, is the largest flying bird in history. She lived about 6 million years ago in open plains of Argentina and in Andes. The bird is a relative of modern vultures and storks, and her feathers reached the size of the samurai sword.
10. With the help of a hydrolyator, the researchers found at a depth of 1.8 km two strange pyramids. Scientists have determined that they are made of a kind of thick glass and achieve huge sizes (more than heaven pyramids in Egypt).
11. These two men with the same name were sentenced to imprisonment in one prison and look very similar. However, they never met, are not relatives and are the reason why fingerprints began to use in the judicial system.
12. Binting legs - Ancient Chinese tradition, when girls tied to the feet to the feet. The idea was that the smaller the feet was, the more beautiful and the girl was precerned.
13. The most strange and frightening mums are considered mummy guanahuato. Their curved faces are forced to believe that they were buried alive.
14. Heroin Once used as a replacement of morphine and used to facilitate cough in children.
15. Joseph Stalin may have been a photoshop inventor. After the death or disappearance of some people, the photos were edited with him.
16. Recent DNA analyzes confirmed that parents of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamon were brother and sister. This explains many of his illnesses and defects.
17. Parliament of Iceland is considered the oldest current parliament in the world. It was founded in the year 930.
Inexplicable and mysterious facts of history
18. For many years, miners in Southwalked mysterious balls A diameter of about 2.5 cm with three parallel furrows. The stone from which they are made belongs to the Precambrian period, that is, their age is about 2.8 billion years.
19. It is believed that the Catholic Saints do not decompose. The oldest of "undecentable" is Cecilia Rimskayawhich was predicted by martyrdom in 177 AD Her body remains almost the same as it was 1700 years ago, when it was discovered.
20. Encryption from Shaboro. In the UK is one of the unsolved so far. If you look closely, you can see the inscription in the form of letters on the monument: Douosvavvm. Nobody knows who the signs of this inscription, but many believe that it is the key to finding Holy Grail.
Prospects for profit - It was believed that at a speed of 60 km / h passengers will be chopped.