Mind blowing fact, in 1841 an Englishman, James Brooke helped to end a local rebellion on the island of Borneo against the Brunei aristocrats and got himself appointed as a king to a private kingdom, much to the amusement of the Victorian Royal Court. The Kingdom of Sarawak, both sovereign & independent lasted from 1841 until the Japanese invasion of 1941, before becoming the last colonial acquisition of the British Crown in 1946.
My mind blowing fact: A Portuguese king once staged a duel between a rhino and an elephant and offered the rhino (stuffed) to the pope. Full story: In 1514, Afonso de Albuquerque, Governor of the Portuguese Indies, received from King Modofar an enormous rhino, which was sent to Lisboa as a gift to Manuel I. The rhino weighed more than 2 tonnes and made quite a fuss all throughout Europe for it was the first live rhino in Europe since the 3rd century. Knowing of the mortal hate between elephants and rhinos, Manuel I organized a fight that resulted in the panic and rapid escape of the elephant. After this, the king decided to offer the famous rhino to the pope along with other treasures. Unfortunately, the ship sank of the coast of Génova and all crew was lost, but still, the rhino was embalmed and sent to the pope anyway. In Portugal this rhino was immortalized with statues in the Torre de Belém and in the Mosteiro de Alcobaça. A pretty interesting story in my opinion...just hope you like it as well!
Mind blowing fact: All the rubble at the bottom of Mount Rushmore is actually debris from its construction, because it has never been finished. The company simply ran out of money. Also: Theodore Roosevelt is only a part of Mount Rushmore, because he was friends with the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum.
America once gave Marquis de Lafayette a live alligator as a thanks for helping them win the revolution. He had no idea what to do with it, so he re-gifted said alligator to John Quincy Adams, who kept it in the bathroom and freaked out some guests.
Mind blowing Fact The White Death! Simo häyhä the world's deadliest sniper. 505 comfirmed Kills in a period of a hundred days! Sometime under - 0 weather! He was nicknamed the white death! He also did all of his Kills without a sniper scope! He was also shot with a exploding bullet in the face and survived!
Mind blowing fact, the height of the roman empire looks as far back to the builds of the piramides as we look back at the Roman empire... *boom* (#notificationsquad!)
Mind Blowing Fact: Everyone with the last name Porteous is a descended from one man that moved from France to Scotland in the days of the Roman Empire.
Mind-Blowing Fact: Aztec Death Whistle (Silbato De la Muerte) Mostly used for special ceremonies but also used for warfare. Before a battle, the Aztecs would play an instrument called the death whistle. Using psychological warfare, they would wait for the enemy to arrive, and once they see them they would blow into the instrument which would create a terrifying sound like screams and march towards the opposing army. They say that it would bring fear to the enemy making them think they will be fighting against an army of the dead.
Mind blowing fact, at the battle of Passchendaele in ww1, the allies won about 8 km at the price of 140.000 only on their side, meaning that the casualties/terrain gained ratio is a little more than 5 cm (5.71... cm) per dead soldier
While people largely assume that The Wright Brothers created the first aeroplane, there is much debate around it as it had to be catapulted from a rail and is therefore simply a glider with an engine. In 1906, Santos Dumonts (a French-Brazilian aviator and engineer) created the 14 bis, which took its maiden flight on the 7th of September. The 14 bis was acknowledged in Europe as get first aeroplane as it managed sustained flight and took off unassisted.
Mind Blowing Fact: The closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of the most fearsome animals to have ever lived, is the modern chicken, and scientists are studying how to clone this massive beast and make a modern Jurassic Park from chicken DNA.
From 1651 to 1986 The Netherlands were at war against The Isles of Scilly. There were no casualties during that war. Contrary, the shortest war lasted an exhausting 38 minutes. This was the Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896.
MIND BLOWING FACT: Ancient Spartans punted weak babies off cliffs (As well as this) they left them out on a cliff to die, if they survived they would be able to live a normal life as the Gods had mercy on them
Mind Blowing Fact: At the end of WO2 the Dutch city of Zwolle (currently more then 100,000 citizens) was completely liberated by a Canadian soldier called Léo Major. On his own he captured more than 80 German soldiers and drove away the rest of the garrison.
I think an interesting fact, maybe not necessarily mind blowing, is that the oldest mummies aren’t from Egypt but actually the Chinchorro civilization, a Clovis group that lived in South America.
Fun mind blowing fact; There was a bear called "Wojtek", who earned a rank in Polish Armed Forces. He was actually helping to deliver artillery shells during the battle of Monte Cassino, aand also loved beer and cigarettes. #mindblown
fun fact: the sailor "ferdinand magellan" didn't curcumnavigate the earth, his crewmembers did! he perished in mactan island in the philipines by our first hero datu Lapulapu (lapu lapu like datu datu but its lapu) in the battle of mactan island lapulapus men got word from a allied tribe that magellanes landed there and they had to pay tribute, lapulapu did not like this so he planned to fight magellan himself. he put his archers on top of coconut trees (very hard to climb) and shoot from there. he set the people with spears to the village, while the kulintang force (sword with two edges) went to the beach in line. when the battle started, it was arquebuiser shots vs arrows, sabre vs kulintang, and for magellan & lapulapu a iron raiper vs a stone kulintang. magellan was killed in the battle. arrows, spears, and lapulapu's kulintang were in his chest & abdomen. however, his crew in the vessel ''the victoria'' sailed to cape verde to ressuply, and then headed for seville... FIN
Mind blown fact: The Great Pyramids of Egypt were not built by slaves but were built by skilled masons. This is a common misconception since these workers who built the pyramids were buried in a respected individual graves at the time of their deaths while slaves were buried in a mass graveyard.
In the summer of 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of the First French Empire, had a rabbit hunt organised. The rabbits, rather than scattering, actually swarmed and attacked Napoleon himself. The rabbits didn't stop until Napoleon had retreated to a nearby carriage and rode away.
1916, Erwin Tennessee USA, a five-ton Asian Elephant known as "Murderous Mary" was trialled for the murder of her abusive circus trainer. Having been sentenced to death, she was hung by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial crane.
Did you know? Pythagoras died when mercenarys sent to kill him cornered him before a bean field. He had some believes, but this one was a killer. He believed that a man should not eat beans because they contained the souls of the dead, so he refused to enter the field and the mercenarys killed him.
Mind blowing fact in the south Pacific in ww2 the average American saw 40 days of combat in 4 years in the vietnam war the average American saw 240 days in 1 year
Mind Blowing Fact: The Bill of Rights did not get ratified in America until 1891, so for 3 years the American people lived without constitutional rights, which is why the Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments as they all came at once.
mindblowing fact we are descendants from the medieval age so we are in the medieval age now. No we are not. And thats the same thing. Some of us are descendants from vikings but we are not in the viking age. Man you need to look at the facts and basic knowledge
In japan there are a class of people known as the untouchables this is a side effect of confucian laws were some people did not fit into certain catagorys these people would be persecuted for so many years that touching them was considered close to sin. Today the untouchables make up the majority of the yakuza and are still segragated to this day
Finally the truth is told Mon Vi, The Quen's oldest title is still Duchess of Normandy. But why does the English crown have three lions and the Normandy flag only two? Henry V1 maried Margret of Anjou in 1445. The sheild of Anjou is one red lion, as at the time the coats of arms of husband and wife were merged England gained a Lion on iut's Royal seal.
Mind blowing fact (for uneducated people): The British "empire" was actually small as fuck during the American Revolution It mostly grew between 1840 and 1890 by conquering backward people in Africa and Asia In the 18th century, Spain had the largest empire in the world
