1200 Fun, Random, & Interesting Facts To Win Trivia! by Matthews Scott

Author:Matthews, Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

History & Culture

618. Vice President Andrew Johnson took his vice presidential oath while completely drunk. During the previous weeks, he had been suffering from typhoid fever, so he took three glasses of medicinal whiskey as a way to prepare himself. He rambled on in a drunken stupor for seventeen minutes.

619. In 1896, a British man named Walter Arnold was given the world’s first speeding ticket for driving four times the speeding limit. Arnold was going eight miles (twelve kilometers) per hour in a two mile (three kilometer) per hour zone; he was caught by a policeman on a bicycle, and was fined one shilling, which was about eight US cents.

620. Different cultures across the world used to practice cranial deformation, and the practice is older than written history. The earliest record of a cranial deformation process was written by Greek physician Hippocrates, who is regarded as the father of medicine.

621. Many people were baptizing their children using beer in place of water during the thirteenth century, and it became such a problem that Pope Gregory IX had to issue a decree stating that baptisms that were conducted this way were invalid.

622. A number of European governments looked into plans to drain the Mediterranean Sea and construct several dams in the 1920’s. This would have created important farmland and it would have resulted in a new continent called Atlantropa. The plan was set aside, even though it had become quite popular.

623. Louis Antoine ascended to the French throne as King during the French Revolution in 1830, after King Charles X, his father, abdicated. But after being king for a mere twenty minutes, Antoine renounced the throne too.

624. Next to the statue of liberty, there is a broken chain and shackle hidden by the statue’s robes, and it symbolizes the abolition of slavery.

625. Twenty seven commoners occasionally evacuated the whole city in ancient Rome, leaving the elites to care for themselves, in what was called the “Cessation of the Plebs.”

626. Adolph Hitler tried to seize power in Munich, but he failed and in 1924, he was imprisoned in Bavaria, Germany, at Landsberg Fortress. While there, the future dictator was so broke, that he once wrote a letter to a Mercedes-Benz dealership owner called Jakob Werlin, begging for a loan so he could purchase a limousine that he desired.

627. When Harry S. Truman, the President of America, went to Disneyland in 1957, he humbly declined a ride on Dumbo the Flying Elephant that was offered to him. Truman was a democrat his entire life, so he didn’t want to be seen riding an elephant, which is the Republican Party symbol.

628. During a White House dinner party in 1933, Amelia Earhart and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt snuck out right after the main course, and they spontaneously flew a plane over Washington D.C., before coming back for dessert.

629. In the 1950’s, the American Federal Government asked the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia to construct a top secret underground bunker where congress would meet in the event of a nuclear war.

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