While surfing recently, I came upon a website that was new to me: One Minute List.

Here is one of its several dozen lists:

1. The shortest war, The Anglo-Zanzibar war (1896) on record lasted for 38 minutes.

2. Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit.

3. In Ancient Egypt people used stones as pillows.

4. The Romans used human urine as mouthwash.

5. Japan invaded Alaska during the WWII in 1942.

6. The last American Civil War veteran lived until 1956. This means he grew up while there was still slavery and was able to see jets and nukes.

7. At one point during the WWII the German Army was only 12 miles away from Moscow.

8. Albert Einstein was offered to be the second president of Israel in 1952 (he declined).

9. Genghis Khan and his army killed 11% of the entire world population (around 40 million people).

10. Iceland’s parliament was established in 930 and is still functioning.

11. Oxford University predates the Aztec Empire by 250 years.

12. The Egyptian pyramids were built by paid laborers, not by slaves.

13. Since the Second World War all British tanks are equipped with tea-making facilities.

14. The Roman Empire was only the 19th largest empire in history.

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