Fascinating Facts to Blow Your Curious Mind by MJC Matthew

Author:MJC Matthew [Matthew, MJC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781464224898
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2023-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

You could also have had mouldy bread in your first aid kit. It doesn’t stop there. Going back to ancient Egypt, mouldy bread was actually used to treat wounds. It was believed that the bacteria within the mould would act as an antibiotic and heal the cut or wound.

You drink dinosaur urine every single day. The average Brit drinks three to four cups of water a day. Although that seems like a lot, humans haven’t been on this planet for long enough to have used most of Earth’s water. Dinosaurs, on the other hand, walked this planet for 186 million years, which gave them a lot of time to consume the planet’s water. In fact, it is estimated that every time you buy water from a shop or pour yourself some from a tap, it is almost certain that that water once passed through a dinosaur. Yes, that’s right – water, the substance we need to survive, is dinosaur pee.

Tanks were designed to make tea. As a Brit myself, I would agree that there are few things as good as a warm cup of tea on a cold evening, but I’m not sure I would have gone this far. During World War II British soldiers kept stopping to take tea breaks as they would get famished in battle. So, since 1945, tanks have doubled as tea-making facilities.

Christmas was banned in Britain. What are the two times of year we all get excited about? Surely it’s summer and Christmas. But what if I told you that one of these was once banned in Britain? That’s right, between the years of 1644 and 1660, Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell actually banned any celebration of Christmas. He was a very strict Christian and he believed that fun activities like dancing, music and even make-up upset God. The English were less than pleased with this decision and there were riots. Scotland, on the other hand, was not bothered and Christmas didn’t become a public holiday until 1958.

An emperor declared war on the ocean. War and conflict aren’t usually fun topics, but this might be the one exception. During the Roman era, when Emperor Caligula was in power, he declared war on the sea. That’s right, the actual ocean – or more specifically on Neptune, the god of the sea. He lined up his soldiers and artillery on the beach and ordered them to ‘whip the waves’ and stab the sea with their swords and spears. Of course, after this undeniable victory, he couldn’t go home empty-handed, so he commanded his men to collect shells from the beach as ‘war booty’.

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