10 Weirdest Historical Facts You’ve Never Heard Of!

History is boring right? The one taught in school, yes! Not these facts for sure!

1. Before the mid 19th century, dentures were commonly made from teeth pulled from mouths of dead soldiers.

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2. Tens of thousands of baby girls have been abandoned in China due to it’s one child policy.

3. The Mayans also performed sacrifices. Most common was- pulling a still beating heart out of the victim’s chest who was very much conscious!

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4. The Romans used human urine as mouth wash. Gross!

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5. During medieval times, animals were put into trials in the court and were routinely executed!

6. Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the U.S., Caribbean, and South America.

7. In the great fire of London in 1666 where 13,200 houses, 87 churches were burnt down and 70,000 were left homeless, only 8 people were killed!

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8. The so called Arabic numerals were actually created by Indians!

9. The shortest war in history was fought between England and Zanzibar. It lasted for just 38 minutes.

10. This has to be the weirdest war of all the times- fought between Netherlands and Isles of Scilly from 1651 to 1986.. that would be 335 years! And what more! The war had no casualties at all!

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