History or Myth? | H/M |
A horse was involved in the death of Catherine the Great | |
Britain and Spain went to war over a sailor's ear | |
Vincent van Gogh only sold one titled painting during his own lifetime | |
King Richard III suffered from curvature of the spine | |
Nero fiddled while Rome burned | |
Adolf Hitler helped design the Volkswagen Beetle | |
Lord Byron kept a pet bear in his room while studying at Cambridge | |
Genghis Khan's Mongol armies killed over 10% of the world's population | |
Hitler's Reich had the largest army ever assembled (12m men) | |
George Washington chopped down a cherry tree | |
Julius Caesar was born by cesarean section | |
Albert Einstein turned down the presidency of Israel | |
Cleopatra’s reign was closer to the moon landings than the Great Pyramid being built | |
Ferdinand Magellan was first to circumnavigate the world | |
Manhattan was purchased for $24 worth of beads | |
Just 300 Spartans held off the Persians at Thermopylae for three days | |
More people are alive today than have died throughout history | |
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb | |
Pope Stephen VI had his predecessor's corpse dug up and put on trial | |
Oliver Cromwell's Puritans banned Christmas | |
Julius Caesar was born by cesarean section | |
Just 300 Spartans held off the Persians at Thermopylae for three days | |
George Washington chopped down a cherry tree | |
A horse was involved in the death of Catherine the Great | |
More people are alive today than have died throughout history | |
Manhattan was purchased for $24 worth of beads | |
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb | |
Nero fiddled while Rome burned | |
Ferdinand Magellan was first to circumnavigate the world | |
Hitler's Reich had the largest army ever assembled (12m men) | |
Adolf Hitler helped design the Volkswagen Beetle | |
Vincent van Gogh only sold one titled painting during his own lifetime | |
Oliver Cromwell's Puritans banned Christmas | |
Lord Byron kept a pet bear in his room while studying at Cambridge | |
Albert Einstein turned down the presidency of Israel | |
Cleopatra’s reign was closer to the moon landings than the Great Pyramid being built | |
Genghis Khan's Mongol armies killed over 10% of the world's population | |
King Richard III suffered from curvature of the spine | |
Britain and Spain went to war over a sailor's ear | |
Pope Stephen VI had his predecessor's corpse dug up and put on trial | |
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