11.
Due to Fresh drinking water being so scarce on the Galápagos Islands, some bird species, such as the Galapagos Hawk, have adapted by drinking the blood of other animals.
12.
That we’ve been on the brink of a global nuclear exchange several times. And that in one case (Cuban blockade), it was only because a single man (Vasily Arkhipov), disagreed with standing orders, that a nuclear exchange was likely averted.
13.
The Mayans partied hard. They would take alcohol and hallucinogenic enemas.
In Social Studies they had us watch a special on them and I vividly remember an artists rendering of a Mayan doing a handstand while getting an enema.
The original keg-stand.
14.
Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids.
15.
Up until the early 1980s doctors did not think newborn babies could feel pain. They didn’t use anesthetic only used muscle relaxers on newborns.
16.
From the fall of the Roman empire up until the mid 19th century, not a single city in Europe had a sewer system to dispose of human feces.
City planners didn’t build sewers until it was proven in 1855 that the cause for all the cholera epidemics was drinking water contaminated by human feces.
17.
Russia still has not recovered its population prior to WWII
18.
Rainbow Valley of Mount Everest is named for the rainbow colors of clothing of passed away people there
19.
The Dutch once ate their Prime Minister.
20.
Spartans bathed their newborn babies in red wine instead of warm water
