RIDICULOUS HISTORY FACTS PART X #shorts #history

RIDICULOUS HISTORY FACTS PART X #shorts #history

A Chinese emperor escaped an assassin by running around a pillar. After 2 hours, the assassin got bored an went home, and wasn’t charged for his crimes.

Sharks have been on earth far longer than trees. The first sharks arose over 100 million years before the first tree.
Fallen trees used to not decay because micro-orgranisms that make wood decay didn't exist yet

Between the 16th and 18th century, slave ships from Africa raided the Mediterranean and enslaved up to a million people. Sometimes entire islands were captured and taken away. Raids were made on seaside towns of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children. It was so bad that people stopped living on long stretches of coast in Spain and Italy.

Elvis died from a heart attack on the toilet because he was straining too hard, later while autopsy-ing him the medical examiners discovered he had 10 kg or 22 pounds of poop in his system.