1.
The British pound is the world's oldest currency
still in use. It's 1200 years old.
2. The
Persian famine of 1917 and 1918 caused deaths by starvation, and cholera, of 4
to 10 million people in Iran.
3. During
the Great Depression, the U.S. deported around 1 million Mexicans. An estimated
60% of them were U.S. citizens.
4. During
WW2, an Italian doctor prevented Nazis from taking Jewish patients by claiming
they suffered the fictitious 'K Syndrome'. He saved 45 lives.
5. In
1956, the U.S. exploded atomic bombs near a few beers to see if they are safe
to drink. They are indeed.
6. Stephen
D Unwin, a PhD in theoretical physics, wrote a book where he calculated the
probability that God exists: 67%.
7. In
1988, a man named Robert W. Faid published a book mathematically
"proving" that the Antichrist was Mikhail Gorbachev, with odds of
exactly 710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1. He later won an Ig Nobel prize for it.
8.
Rock star Ozzy Osbourne once joined a Christian
protest march against himself outside of one of his concerts.
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