Here are some strange historical facts that will keep you confused and amazed.  Some of the strange historical facts are as follows:

• 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the age of 30.
• In 1962, the schools in Tanganyika closed because of an outbreak of contagious laughter that lasted for six months.
• In 1980, workers in a Las Vegas hospital were suspended. They had bet on which patient would die first.
• Earlier in China, doctors received their fees only if patients were cured.
• In the 1800s, if anyone failed to die after committing a suicide, they had to face the death penalty.

The steroids if ancient Rome were dried boar’s dung. Chariot racers often took a drink made from the dung before major events.

During the First World War, the punishment for homosexuality in the French army was execution.

Members of the SS had their blood types tattooed on their armpits.

A golden razor removed from Tutankhamen’s tomb over 3000 years after his death was still sharp enough for use.

In ancient Greece an “idiot” was a private citizen or layman.

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.

The armistice which ended the First World War was typed back to front. The French clerk who was taking the dictation accidentally out some of the carbon papers in the wrong way round.

The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as early as AD300. Western civilization didn’t rediscover the metal until 1827.

Many men who acted as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages spent their whole lives there. They were born there, raised there, they married there, died there, and were even buried within the wall.

Barbers used to combine shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth, The white stripes on the red background of a barber’s pole represent the bandages used in bloodletting.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

97 per cent of all paper money in the United States contains traces of cocaine.

While the Hiroshima atomic bomb was being prepared in New Mexico, applicants for menial jobs at the plant didn’t get the job if they could read. This was because the Us authorities didn’t want staff reading secret papers or discarded litter.

The amount of junk mail that Americans receive in a day could produce enough energy to heat a quarter of a million homes.

There are 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire strung across the US. There are more phones in New York City than there are in the whole of Spain.

Over 26 billion dollars in ransom money has been pain out in the US over the past 20 years.