Very interesting historical data that you did not know

The Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna organized a very elaborate funeral for his leg, which was snatched from him in an explosion in September 1842.

The shortest war in all history lasted 38 minutes, and was a military conflict between United Kingdom Zanzibar, which occurred on August 27, 1896.

According to the beliefs, the Catholic saints never get rotten. An example of this is Santa Cecilia, who died in 177 AD, and to this day remains intact.

When Pope Gregory IX came into his office he made everyone believe that cats were demon possessed and decided to end with all of them, especially the black ones, because according to him they brought bad energies. The lack of cats caused the overpopulation of rats and cockroaches, thus causing the black plague.

This was used during World War II to soothe throat discomfort in children and help them sleep. Some time later it began to be used as a medicine to cure cough.

A chemist from the Bayer company put the name "heroin" on the substance because of his heroic abilities to replace morphine. It was believed that this drug was less addictive and had fewer side effects.

Not only was he a true genius, he was also invited by Israel to be its president but he declined. According to him, he was not yet ready to take on so much responsibility.

Grigori Rasputin was considered a religious healer with very special gifts in the last century, for which he won many enemies for his narcissistic personality. In 1916, he suffered several assassination attempts in a single day, he was shot, stabbed, poisoned by several people but survived. Convinced that he had died, they threw him into a frozen river. Some time later they discover that he had drowned.

Egyptians were not the only ones who made their first pillow based on stone or other materials such as gold when it was a pharaoh's. They were used especially to support the head, unlike the current ones that are for the comfort of each person.

In the Middle Ages, dental prostheses were made with teeth extracted from soldiers who died in battles, something that changed with time completely.

Before the alarm clocks or cell phones were invented, women were hired to do this work, and they used tubes or straws to make noise and touch the windows.

Kim Jong-il, father of the current dictator Kim Jong-un, had a lot of musical talent and wrote 6 operas, but none of them were ever performed.

The largest bird known to man was originally from Argentina. Its wings extended by 6 meters and a half.

A monkey called Jackie was adopted by a soldier in 1918. He fought in the First World War and was part of the nursing area of ​​the South African Army. He did not survive one of the attacks.

In 1598, Queen Elizabeth ordered a banquet to be prepared with an ingredient of the new world; potatoes. The real chefs had never prepared them and only used the greener part of the ingredient, making the whole royal court sick with food.

Napoleon loved rabbits and had several pets. One day, on a guided tour of his home, Napoleon opened the rabbit cages, to show them better to his guests but they, for some strange reason, were furious, and went against him.