10 History Facts They Didn’t Teach You At School

10 History Facts They Didn’t Teach You At School
The Leaning Tower of Pisa was never straight.

During the Great Depression, people made clothes out of food sacks.

Lord Byron kept a bear in his college dorm.

Iceland has the world’s oldest parliament in history.

Since the end of WWI, over 1,000 people have died from leftover unexploded bombs.

46 BC was 445 days long and is the longest year in human history.

100 million years ago, the Sahara Desert was inhabited by galloping crocodiles.

During the Victorian period, it was normal to photograph relatives after they died.

One man survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and then later Nagasaki.

The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes.

Before the 19th Century, dentures were made from dead soldiers’ teeth.