The Egyptians were the first ones to measure accurately the relative duration of the year: 365 days and ¼.
If a statue of a person on horseback has two legs in the air, the person died in combat, if the horse has one of the front legs in the air, the person died of wounds provoked in combat, if the horse has all four feet on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
It took 22 centuries to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Sun (149,400,000 km.). It would had been known much sooner if someone it had occurred to someone to multiply by 1,000,000,000 the height of the pyramid of Cheops at Giza, built 30 centuries before Christ.
The word "cemetery" comes from the Greek meaning koimetirion: bedroom.
The largest empire of human history was the British Empire, during the nineteenth century.
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for 7.2 million. Many Americans said "we bought a huge and expensive breed of walruses." Currently, exploiting its natural resources, it produces annually 40 times the initial investment.
Throughout the story, 36 popes have been killed and 13 imprisoned or expelled from the lands.
They began to put horseshoes on the horses at the time of the Roman Empire when they began to pave its streets.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
In 1694 the judges were dressed in black to mourn the death of Queen Maria II and have remained dressing that way ever since.
The ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone
In the ninth century Pope ordered to put a rooster in the bell towers of churches to symbolize the fact that St. Peter denied Jesus three times before cockcrow as we are told in the Gospel of St. Mark. As the bell towers of churches were already decorated with vanes to measure the wind, they put the rooster on the tip, thus establishing the habit.
The verb "testify" is based on the Roman courts where men made oaths by some statement on his testicles.
The symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was a penis with wings.
In England in the nineteenth century, the word pants was considered obscene.
On April 19th of 1912 between 1,490 and 1,635 people where killed in the sinking of the Titanic, only 100 were women.
The oldest known legal code was put into operation in 1950 BC during the reign of the leader named Hammurabi of Babylon. The Code of Hammurabi is now known for its emphasis on the law of retaliation: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
The length of the wings of a Boeing 747 is longer than the distance of the first flight of the Wright brothers.
The Tower of Hercules, on the outskirts of La Coruña, Spain, measuring 185 feet high and is the oldest lighthouse still in use. It dates back to the reign of Roman emperor Trajan between 98 to 117 years after Christ.
In the Roman circus, spectators tried to get blood from the victorious gladiator as they believed it gave them health and luck. And with sweat women did creams for the body.
The largest diamond found so far has been the Cullinan diamond, discovered in South Africa in 1905. It was 3106 carats, equivalent to 621200 milligrams, but eventually was cut to 530 carats, or 106000 milligrams and now resides between the British crown jewels.
Alfred Nobel, who made his fortune in the oil industry in the fields of Russia and through the sale of dynamite and other explosives, donated at the time of his death $ 9.2 million for the prize that bears his name, the Nobel Prize of Peace. Some say he was shocked by having increased the ability of humankind to kill each other. Today the Nobel Prizes are awarded to outstanding persons in the areas of physics, chemistry, psychology, medicine and literature.
Jesus Christ was born probably in the year 6 BC. It is assumed that because the Bible suggests that Christ had at least two years old when King Herod died. Herod, according to other sources, died in the year 4 BC.
St. Augustine, a saint of the Catholic Church said: "Prostitution is a necessary condition of morality" and "if you remove prostitution, the pleasure and leave will corrupt the society."
In the year 585 after Christ, Macon council decided by a single vote in advantage that women were human and that also could have soul. According to theologians of the Church today, saying that the interpretation of the debate and its outcome is a ridiculous misunderstanding, that is a matter of semantics rather than dogma.
The sexual position "the missionary" was once the only sexual position accepted by the Church.
To mark the hour, previously used sundials that served for knowing daytime based on the shadow that it planned a rod. In the northern hemisphere, the shadows moved in the direction in which the hands of the clocks move now, as a consequence the habit was created. Perhaps if the clocks had been invented in the southern hemisphere, the direction of the hands would have gone in the opposite direction.
The oldest piece of chewing gum has more than 9000 years.
Pope Innocent III who was born in 1198 and died in 1216, allowed the dissolution of marriage if the sexual organs of the couples were not compatible according to the size of them making it difficult or dangerous for sex.
In 1439, in England, kissing was outlawed as a method to control the spread of diseases by physical contact. The Romans distinguished 3 types of kisses: The osculum, which occurs on the cheek between friends; basium, on the lips, and suavem, between lovers.
