Fun
History Facts
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Here
are a few fun history facts. Take
a look & see how many you already knew. Enjoy!
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| 1. Teddy Roosevelt is the youngest man
to become president of America at the age of 42. John F. Kennedy was the
youngest man ever to be elected as president of America at the age of 43. |
| 2. France’s Emperor
Napoleon III gave his most honored guests cutlery made from aluminum. At the
time, aluminum was very rare and expensive. Other guests were given silver
or gold cutlery.
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| 3. The first food grown
in outer space was potatoes in 1995 aboard the space shuttle Columbia. |
| 4. The Shawnee Indian
tribe gave Daniel Boone the name Sheltowee (meaning “Big Turtle”) in 1778,
because he wore a heavy pack on his back and walked slowly. |
| 5. The trench coat was
created for foul weather for British soldiers fighting in World War One. The
coat was designed by Thomas Burberry and became part of the British uniform.
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| 6. The U.S. Forest
Service initially called its mascot “Hotfoot Teddy”, before his name was
changed to Smokey Bear. Hotfoot Teddy was found as a cub in 1950 after a
forest fire in Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico. He was given his
nickname because he had a badly singed foot.
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| 7. After Alexander
Graham Bell invented the telephone, his landlady complained that he made too
much noise shouting into the phone. As a result, Bell’s assistant, Thomas
Watson, would throw blankets over some of the furniture and climb underneath
when making a call. Thus, the invention of the first phone booth. By 1883,
he upgraded to an enclosed wooden booth with a screen window, a writing
desk, and a ventilator. |
| 8. The city of Venice
was founded by the citizens of Padua. They fled to the swampy area to escape
the forces of Attila the Hun. |
| 9. In 1875, baseball
player Charles Waite was the first player to wear a baseball glove which led
to fans ridiculing him as a sissy. The glove was thin, flesh-colored, and
unpadded. |
| 10. In 1865, a cholera
epidemic swept through a small town where Max Hoffman, a five-year-old U.S.
boy, lived. Hoffman became infected and as far as anyone could tell, died.
For a couple of nights after his funeral, Hoffman’s mother had vivid
nightmares of Max still being alive that she insisted that her husband dig
up the coffin. Mr. Hoffman did, and when he opened the coffin he saw signs
of life and was able to revive his son. Max made a full recovery and lived
to the age of ninety. |
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