History's Strangest Moments in a Minute Part 1 #facts #history #strange

History's Strangest Moments and Facts Part 1
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Thomas Edison filmed the world's first cat video in the late 1800s. It was a short film called 'Boxing Cats,' produced by Edison's company at the Black Maria studio in New Jersey in 1894.

The ancient Greeks had a sport called "pankration," which was a mix of boxing and wrestling and allowed almost any form of attack except eye-gouging and biting.

In ancient Egypt, servants had to be smeared with honey to attract flies away from pharaohs.

In the "Dancing Plague of 1518," hundreds of citizens of Strasbourg uncontrollably danced for days.
People danced ceaselessly, collapsing from exhaustion and then resuming. Dancing even when injured, and this strange mania persisted for about two months before ending mysteriously.

The shortest reign of papacy was thirteen days. Pope Urban seven was elected on 15th of September 1590 and died of malaria on the 27th of the same month.