10 interesting facts about world history

You can learn about the greatest events in the history of the world in textbooks, but there are many interesting or creepy details that you have not discovered.

Here are 10 historical facts that textbooks have missed.

1. The witch's trial has a long and dark history.You may have heard about witchcraft trials in Salem, USA, but the witch hunt was actually long ago.An anthropologist said that in the Middle Ages, about 600,000 people died as alleged "witches".

2., even being sentenced to death penalty.

3. Pope Gregory IX - the 178th pope of the Catholic church - has declared cats involved in worshiping and worshiping devils.This leads to the mass destruction of cats.

4. The rich world of Europe in the 1500s and 1600s used to eat some parts of corpses because they believed it had healing effects.Human blood and fat have been used to treat many different diseases.

5. Tomb thieves even violated ancient Egyptian tombs to steal the mummies, which the rich people mentioned above will consume.

6. Einstein used to "nearly" become president.In 1952, Albert Einstein was invited to become Israel's president, but he refused.

7. The shortest historical war that lasted only 38-45 minutes was the Anglo-Zanzibar war, which began and ended on August 27, 1896.

8. The parents of Pharaoh Tutankhamun recently verified as siblings.DNA from mummy Tutankhamun's mother shows that she is both the biological mother of King Tut, and the father of King Tut - Pharaoh Akhenaten.

9. XVII century Roman Prince Vlad the Impaler used to eat blood from his enemies. He was born in Transilvania, Romania, having many eccentric habits and bearing the surname "Dracula" . Vlad's image is the inspiration for writer Bram Stoker to write the novel "Count Dracula".

10. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two "founders" or "fathers" of the United States, were present to sign the Declaration of Independence (written by Jefferson).Both of them died on the same day - the US National Day in 1826 (July 4, 1826), exactly 50 years after the First Independence Day (July 4, 1776).